Elisabeth Aubert was a "fille du roi," that is, one of about 770 women who were sent to Québec between 1663 and 1673 to marry settlers (there were far more men than women in Canada at the time). Louis XIV paid for their passage and gave them dowries, hence the nickname "daughters of the king." Many were orphans, and many were prostitutes from Paris and other large cities. There is an association of their descendants.

We do not know whether Elisabeth Aubert was an orphan, but when she married, she gave her parents' names as Michel Aubert and Jeanne Audeau, and her father's occupation as "master smelter." She said she was baptized in the Paris church of St-Jacques-de-la Boucherie on April 13, 1648. This church has been demolished but its 175-foot tower still stands; in the same year Elisabeth was born, the philosopher Blaise Pascal was using the tower for his experiments in atmospheric pressure. The records of that church also show a brother, Pierre, born 1649, and a sister, Anne, born 1650. The family is listed as residing on the Pont du Change (pictured above in an engraving from She came to Québec in 1670, and was married to Aubin Lambert dit Champagne on September 29 of that year at Nôtre-Dame de Québec. The couple had nine children (see Lambert), and Elisabeth died in October 1690.