Born: 3 March 1678, Canada
Died: 8 August 1747
Country most active: Canada
Also known as: Marie-Madeleine Jarret
The following is excerpted from “400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time” by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.
A Canadian heroine, daughter of J. de V., Captain Regiment Carignan and his wife Marie Perrot. She was born April 17, 1678. When fourteen years of age she defended her father’s Fort, at that time garrisoned by a single sentry, against an attack of the Iroquois. After eight days, relief arrived and the Iroquois were driven off. A statue to her memory has been erected at Vercheres Point, near the site of the Fort, on the bank of the St. Lawrence. She was married in 1706, to P. T. T. Lenaudiere, Seigneur St. Ann de la Perade. She died at St. Anne in 1747. She is known as the “Joan of Arc” of Canada.