- Monsieur Claude Trepagny: Tell me, Mr. Sell, what is your impression of New France?
- Rene Sel: So many trees!
- Monsieur Claude Trepagny: Can you hear it? God in the whirlwind, he can feel us trampling our kingdom.
- Elisha Cooke: May I just say what a relief it is to hear your voice. It is so good to have another Englishman in town.
- Hamish Goames: I was born in Kirkwood.
- Elisha Cooke: [flustered] Even so... our numbers swell.
- Captain Bouchard: But soon the peace will be broken and the English and French will go back to the way things have always been, throat slitting, lying, and land grabs.
- Hamish Goames: As you may well know, one does not prosper to empire with timid strokes, Captain.
- Monsieur Claude Trepagny: What sort of a man are you?
- Rene Sel: Rene Sel.
- Monsieur Claude Trepagny: No no no, your name matters no more than the mouth of a fish. I will ask you once again, what sort of a man are you?
- Rene Sel: I am your man.
- Monsieur Claude Trepagny: Yes!
- Charles Duquet: There is nothing here for us, just tress and bugs and dead things. We have been tricked into serving a mad squatter.
- Rene Sel: He will hunt you down if you leave.
- Charles Duquet: Then we shall make a game of it.
- Rene Sel: What are we cutting the trees for?
- Monsieur Claude Trepagny: To build. To raise up. You will see.