What was the eperience of a ship's boy on Samuel de Champlain's ship like? A child born of the union of a Daughter of the King and a former soldier? A young native domiciled? a black slave? Twins working at the Forges du Saint-Maurice? Twelve boys and girls who lived between 1600 and 1760 take to the floor to reveal, in two pages each, their way of life at the time of the colonization of New-France. Their testimonies are interspersed with documentary passages relating, among other things, to the political organization, the seigniorial regime, the religious communities, the clothes, the food and the territorial explorations of this pivotal period of our History. An index comprising the names places, characters,significant events and people navigate through this softcover album that introduces young readers to this rich subject.