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The King’s Stores

The king’s stores were warehouses enclosed within a building located near the port and Place du Marché. They housed armaments, war supplies, wheat and other provisions required by the troops in Montréal and by the forts in the interior of the continent. They also housed merchandise offered as gifts to the Amerindian tribes allied to the French. Lastly, they housed various items required by the king’s officers for governing the colony. They were not retail stores in the modern sense of the word. However, the keeper of the king’s store (who, in 1734, was Louis-Joseph Rocbert), was permitted to sell wholesale items to merchants in the city. Following the fire of 1734, the king’s stores provided goods and provisions to people in need, to the soldiers and to the king’s officers.

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