Adrienne Du Vivier

Adrienne Du Vivier (1626[1] – 20 October 1706) was a French pioneer and one of the first white women to settle in the colony of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

"[2] Adrienne was born in 1626 in Corbeny, Picardy, France, a daughter of Antoine Du Vivier and Catherine Journe.

In 1646, in St. Bartholemi, Paris, at the age of twenty, she married a soldier Augustin Hébert (1623 – 23 November 1653) who had just returned from Canada.

At the end of the year, Adrienne, her husband and baby Jeanne sailed from La Rochelle to New France along with the founder of Montreal Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve.

Adrienne was one of the few white women in the colony apart from Jeanne Mance who had founded a hospital with a group of nuns.