Date Published:
April 2005

L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia

Alexandre de Prouville, Sieur de Tracy

Tracy, Alexandre de Prouville, Sieur de (1603-1670), lieutenant-general of the French territories in America (1663-7), was born in France in 1603, and became an officer in the French army. In 1663 he was appointed lieutenant-general of the French territories in North and South America ; and he arrived in Canada in 1665, with military reinforcements to be employed against the Iroquois. In 1666 he made a successful expedition against the Iroquois, and thoroughly cowed them. He returned to France in 1667; and he then became, first, commandant at Dunkirk, and later governor of Chateau Trompette, the stronghold of Bordeaux. Here he died on April 28, 1670.

[On Tracy, consult the biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography]

Source: W. Stewart Wallace, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. VI, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 398p., p. 161.