Louis Chartier

Louis Chartier (1633 to 1660) was a surgeon sent from France to Canada in 1653 as part of an initiative to strengthen Montreal. The Société Notre-Dame de Montréal, which was responsible for founding the settlement of Ville-Marie, had pledged to provide free medical care for its settlers, and Chartier worked at that task alongside another surgeon, Étienne Bouchard. He drowned in 1660 during the defence of the settlement against an Iroquois attack, and it is believed that he had also spent part of one year as a captive of the Iroquois. His significance to the history of the area rests on the role he played in the infancy of the Ville-Marie settlement.