In 1665 the Company obtained the Regiment Carignan-Salt to provide security against Iroquois invasion, and contributed to the settlement of the colony, by the arrival of 1200 men from the Dauphiné, Liguria, Piedmont and Savoy.
Upon his return to Canada Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye obtained shortly after the dissolution of the company, from 1675 and until 1681, the rights of the farm of the Company of the West and his friend Jean Oudiette, and holding the monopoly of beaver pelts, then Canada's main export.