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Dear L.A. Childress:
I think that you are trying to make the point that the natives were there much before the arrival of the French and that the settlers were transients for a long time. This is correct - while the first settlement of Kebec was started in 1608, the number of permanent residents of French origin did not really exceed 50 until 1632 when the first boats arrived with Robert Giffard. I did not supply any reference, because I do not know if Les voyages de Champlain have been translated in English and are available on the web. I read it in French through the Geneanet collections that require a subscription. In English, there is an excellent book called "Before the King's daughter's, the Filles à Marier: 1634-1662" by Peter J. Gagné, an american - not available on the web, but worth the trip to the local library. It is a list of all (several hundreds) the single (often orphaned or widowed) women who came to New France to marry, even before the organised system of the King's Daughters.
As for the longhouses, I believe they were built by the Wendats (called Huron by the French), settled further west (now southern Ontario) who did grow corn. According to Champlain, the tribes around Quebec when he arrived were hunter gatherers.
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