Considered Affinity: Kinship, Marriage, and Social Class in new France, 1640–1729
Molloy, M.
Social Science History 14(1): 1-26
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0145-5532 Document Number: 416854
The French settlers who peopled Quebec during the seventeenth century were, by and large, detached individuals without kin in the New World. Of the 5,007 permanent settlers, only 661 (13%) had relations beyond the nuclear family amongst other settlers (Guillemette and Légáré 1989: Table 8). These figures suggest that for the majority of settlers kinship was not an important factor in the decision to migrate to New France.