L’affaire de la Mary Fortune Les traités de Saint-Germain de 1632 et la souveraineté sur le Canada

Abstract

On March 29, 1632, France and England signed two treaties that officially put an end to the war that had opposed them from 1627 to 1629. Historians generally consider that one of them officially put France in possession of Canada. But the English did not hear it that way and will continue to claim sovereignty over the entire territory, except the specific places given back to France in March 1632: Québec, Port-Royal and Cape-Breton Island. The case of the Mary Fortune, an English ship boarded in the Bay of Tadoussac in 1634, exposes these differences of interpretation.