(photo prise devant la maison Tresler)
« In the XVllth and XVlllth Centuries, Canadians, as a general rule, dressed in the French fashion »
(Le costume civil en Nouvelle-France, Séguin R.L.
National Museum of Man, Ottawa, 1968, p. 1)
The « Nouvelle-France » bourgeois costume is thus called because of our status as a French colony. Inhabitants of the St-Lawrence colony have always imported several varieties of clothing from France.
Local fabrics are scarce and will not gain popularity until the second half of the XVlllth Century.