La Tour, Charles

La Tour, Charles

▪ French colonial governor and trader
in full  Charles Turgis de Saint-Étienne de La Tour 
born 1593, Champagne, France
died 1666, Fort St. John, Nova Scotia

      French colonist and fur trader who served as governor of Acadia (region of the North American Atlantic seaboard centred on Nova Scotia) under the French and the English.

      La Tour went to Acadia with his father in 1610. When the English destroyed the French settlements there in 1613–14, he went with Charles de Biencourt (Biencourt, Charles de), commander of the devastated Port-Royal (now Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia), to live with the Native Americans (First Nations). In 1623 Biencourt gave up his rights and possessions to La Tour.

      Meanwhile La Tour's father had made an alliance with Sir William Alexander (later Earl of Stirling), the Scottish colonizer of Nova Scotia (the English name for Acadia), and La Tour was made an English baronet of the region, even though he refused to transfer his allegiance from France. He built Fort La Tour at the mouth of the St. John River and was made lieutenant governor of most of Acadia in 1631. La Tour violently disagreed with the rival governor, Charles de Menou, sieur d'Aulnay Charnisay, who represented the king of France, and violence resulted. La Tour escaped to Quebec, where he remained until d'Aulnay's death in 1650; he married d'Aulnay's widow in 1653. He returned to France and persuaded the king to make him governor of Acadia. When the English took over the territory in 1654, La Tour kept his post and, after visiting England, received a land grant on the basis of his status as a baronet of Nova Scotia.

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