"The Great Intendant" by Thomas Chapais is a biography of Jean Talon (1626-1694) who was the first Intendant of New France. Talon was appointed by King Louis XIV and his minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert to serve as the Intendant of Justice, Public Order, and Finances in Canada, Acadia, and Newfoundland for two terms: 1665 to 1668 and 1670 to 1672. The book also reveals some important insights about 17th-century French settlements in Canada.

'The Great Company' is a history of the renowned Honourable Company of Merchants, a Canadian based company whose merchants brought their wares to the Hudson's Bay. The company is regarded as the oldest and longest-surviving company in North America as well as one of the oldest continuously operating companies in the world. The Hudson's Bay Company witnessed the French dominion in North America rise to its extreme height, decline and disappear; it saw new colonies planted by Britain; it saw them quarrel with the parent State, and themselves become transformed into States. Wars came and passed—European Powers on this continent waxed and waned, rose and faded away; remote forests were invaded by loyal subjects who erected the wilderness into opulent provinces. Change, unceasing, never-ending change, has marked the history of this hemisphere of ours; yet there is one force, one institution, which survived nearly all conditions and all régimes.