![]() McKay and the 2012 novel The Tale-Teller by Susan Glickman. There are fictional books on Esther: the 2004 novel Esther by Sharon E. ![]() The government decided on deportation, and after correspondence with authorities in France, she was sent back to her home in France on a ship named Comte de Matignon at the expense of the State. She resisted, desiring to live in Canada as a Jew. However, later he wrote to the minister in France that attempts to have her convert to the Roman Catholic faith had failed. Hocquart initially became under the impression that Brandeau was desirous of converting to Catholicism and remain in the colony. As a non-Catholic in a legally Catholic country, she was arrested on direction of Intendant Hocquart of New France and taken to the Hôpital Général in Quebec City. After a brief masquerade, Esther's religion and gender were both discovered. She came to New France upon a ship called the St-Michel and stayed only a year. Told as fiction, Esther portrays the remarkable, nearly incredible life and times of Esther Brandeau, a young girl who lived in the eighteenth century, and who was the first Jew to set foot in New France. Born in France, Brandeau was able to come to New France because she pretended she was a Roman Catholic boy.īrandeau named herself Jacques La Fargue and became a sailor in Bordeaux, on a ship bound for the port of Quebec. by Sharon McKay (Author) See all formats and editions. ![]() 1718, probably at Saint-Esprit (near Bayonne), in the diocese of Dax.Īround that time, Canada was the only colony of the New World never reported to have been visited by a Jew. in Canada 1738–39) was the first Jewish girl to set foot in Canada, or New France, in 1738. ![]()
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