EventAcross the pillars
The Rendezvous at Tadoussac
The canoes begin arriving the morning after we anchor, from upriver and from the far shore, riding low under bales of winter fur. It is a rendezvous, the interpreter explains: the peoples of the cold country meet at this river mouth every year to trade before the ice comes, and they have taken our sails for the biggest trading canoe ever built. The clerk turns over a beaver pelt, then another, then puts down his pen for arithmetic of a different kind. The kingdom of gold may be a rumor, he says. The beaver are not.
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- Diamonds at the CapeEventAfter any choice · 5–10 days later
Trigger
Expeditionexpedition_leader exists
Exact conditions
References 1
FurOption 1
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- Diamonds at the CapeAfter the chosen option
Scripting 1
References 1
- prestige_weak_bonusOption 2
type = country_event
title = seven_cities_saguenay.13.title The Rendezvous at Tadoussac
desc = seven_cities_saguenay.13.desc The canoes begin arriving the morning after we anchor, from upriver and from the far shore, riding low under bales of winter fur. It is a rendezvous, the interpreter explains: the peoples of the cold country meet at this river mouth every year to trade before the ice comes, and they have taken our sails for the biggest trading canoe ever built. The clerk turns over a beaver pelt, then another, then puts down his pen for arithmetic of a different kind. The kingdom of gold may be a rumor, he says. The beaver are not.
historical_info = seven_cities_saguenay.13.historical_info Tadoussac, at the mouth of the Saguenay, was a trading rendezvous long before any European post stood there: Innu and Algonquin bands met at the river mouth each season to exchange furs and copper, and the first French ships simply moored themselves into an existing market. Pierre de Chauvin built France's first permanent trading post there in 1600, years before Quebec was founded. The kingdom of the Saguenay was never found up the river, but the furs that came down it funded New France for two centuries, which is more than most real kingdoms have managed.
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