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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the head of the civil administration in New France.

Quotations

1711

And as you turn up, at y^e Intendants, there is a Gate and a little above y^t Gate is three Guns west, & a small Clockhouse upon y^e works.

1857

The gentlemen who have the management of the Police and the civil power, meet here, and the Intendant generally presides.

1904

The Intendant in New France was a kind of business manager for the King, a combined Minister of Finance, Justice and Police, the most important man in the colony, next to the governor, upon whom, to tell the truth, he was a spy, or at least a check.

1962

The first came from Jacques de Meulles, Intendant of New France, in 1686.