Helen Desportes
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Helen Desportes (July 7, 1620 to June 24, 1675) was the first white child born in Canada, New France. Her parents were French habitants Pierre Desportes (1580- after 1629), who was in charge of the warehouse in Quebec as well as the village baker, and his wife Françoise Langlois (c1595- after 1629), who settled in Quebec.
Her godmother was Madame Helene Champlain, wife of Samuel de Champlain. In his will Champlain left her 300 livres (about $15,000 in 1997). [1]
Helene married Noel Morin, a native of St Etienne le Brie, a village near Paris, on January 9, 1640, in Quebec City. They had 12 children, and today, most Canadians can trace their families back to one of these 12 children.
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- ^ (1972) Samuel de Champlain, Father of New France. Boston: Little, Brown, pp.179, 224.
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