As the four first Augustinians landed in New France in 1639, they quickly embarked upon the establishment of the first monastery-hospital north of Mexico. From the very beginning of their undertaking, they knew that they had arrived in a “new” land where everything was still to be constructed. They also maintained close contact with the Mères de France. In its archives, the monastery of the Hôtel-Dieu in Québec has also preserved an imposing correspondence with the French superiors of different monasteries, specifically that of Dieppe – the monastery responsible for the founding of the Canadian institution – but also those of Bayeux, Vitré, d’Auray and of Caderousse. These documents make it possible to understand how the French Augustinians perceived the specificity of their Canadian colleagues across the centuries. This microhistory shared between one continent and another has until recently remained within the shadows of Québec’s religious historiography. This, although the relations between the Augustinians of France and those of Canada provide and interesting account of the creation of the distinct Franco-Catholic space on Canadian soil which emerged from a specific socio-historic development which in turn reveals the evolution of one of the religious communities at the origins of the country.