Monument «The first colonists of Quebec».

 

This monument was sculpted by Alfred Laliberté and is located in Montmorency Park behind the «La basilique Notre-Dame de Québec» at three hundred meters north of the Chateau Frontenac. It was erected in memory of the first colonists established in Nouvelle France by date of arrival.

The names of Jacques and Marguerite Hertel Marguerie, parents of the first wife of Louis Pinard appear in under the date 1636. Louis Pinard married Marie-Madeleine Hertel in 1658. This is the first girl born in Trois-Rivières to take husband. It represents the beginning of the long line of family Pinard.