Hey everybody and happy Saturday!

Coming up this week we're going to have an installment in our six Impossible Episode

series.

And one of those impossible episodes that we mentioned throws back to Le Fidu-Croix,

which was a French effort to send eligible women to New France to correct a gender imbalance

that had developed there.

This is the oldest episode that's getting a shout out in the one that's coming out this

week, or at least in terms of ones that have not already been reissued as Saturday classics,

so we thought it would be a good time to re-release it for listeners who weren't tuned into

the show back in July of 2014 or could use a refresher on the spit of Canadian history.

And please pardon my terrible pronunciation of French and sometimes also English in this

episode.

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from How Stuff Works.com.

Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Holly Fry and I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And today's topic is one that we have had many requests for, especially since I mentioned

when we were doing our Maurice Duplacé episodes that I wanted to do more Canadian history.

And it's also one that's actually been on my list for quite a while, but I will not tell

you why.

The thing that tipped the balance and kind of shifted this way up was a request from one

of our youngest fans, Giselle and her dad, Tony, who wrote us a very charming email.

So, bonjour Gigi et merci, parable de fapla, you made.

So this one is going to be about French Canadian history and the colonization of new France.

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