July 30 1609 Champlain killed 3 Mohawk chiefs in a battle against the Iroquois

1609 french raid against haudenosaunee/Iroquois

Jesuits known as the society of Jesus were missionary so trying to convert first nations to catholic

The Company of One Hundred Associates was established in 1627 by Cardinal Richelieu.  It was a group of one hundred investors, which included many important officials of the French court as well as merchants and financiers whose purpose was to colonize and govern New France. Champlain is listed as an investor as well as an ancestor in the Cameron line, Pierre DesPortes.  

Early French travellers in the territory occupied by the Huron-Wendat

Sainte-Marie is a town and the fifth-largestcommune in the French overseas department of Martinique. It is located on the northeast (Atlantic Ocean) side of the island of Martinique.
26-30 in cross roads

Sainte-Marie is a town and the fifth-largestcommune in the French overseas department of Martinique. It is located on the northeast (Atlantic Ocean) side of the island of Martinique

The iroquis benefitted from the weakened state of the Huron nation, laid waste by epidemics and divided by the presence of so many Christian converts. The Hurons had no European weapons either for the French refused to sell to them.

●the Govnor looked after military affairs a specially dealing with the iroquins

●the intendent was the chief administration who looked after the colony and developed it’s economy

●the bishop of new France was responsible for religious affairs

Frontenac he supported the expansion of the fur trade, talon first Intendant of New France. Talon was appointed by King Louis XIV and his minister and serve as the Intendant of Justice, Public Order and Finances in Canada, Acadia and Newfoundland for two terms. Laval a Canadian city located in southwestern Quebec, north ofMontreal. It forms its own administrative region of Quebec.

Fur brigades were convoys of canoes and boats used to transport supplies, trading goods and furs in the North American fur trade industry. Much of it consisted of native fur trappers and fur traders who travelled between their home trading posts and a larger Hudson’s Bay Company or Northwest Companypost in order to supply the inland post with goods and supply the coastal post with furs.

Pierre was was a French Canadianmilitary officer, fur trader and explorer. In the 1730s he and his four sons opened up the area west of Lake Superior and thus began the process that added Western Canada to the original New France in the Saint Lawrence basin. He was also the first known European to reach North Dakota and the upper Missouri River. In the 1740s two of his sons crossed the prairie as far as Wyoming and were the first Europeans to see theRocky Mountains north of New Mexico

Habitants were French settlers and the inhabitants ofFrench origin who farmed the land along the two shores of the St. Lawrence Gulf and River in what is the present-day Province of Quebec in Canada. The term was used by the inhabitants themselves and the other classes of French Canadian society from the 17th century up until the early 20th century 

In New France, the seigneurs were the people to whom the authorities gave or sold large tracts of land, provided that they cleared it, built houses and populated the seigneurie. In order to do this, seigneurs recruited hired men who did this work under contract. At the end of the contract, most hired men accepted to settle on the seigneurie where they had worked so far. The seigneur sold them a parcel of land and guaranteed their security and well-being. The new colonists had some obligations towards the seigneur, such as giving him a small portion of their annual harvest.

The role of the Catholic Church in New France was two-fold. Though religious in nature, the Catholic clergy helped to develop the social aspects of the inhabitants and pioneeers in New France. They were what, at the time, held the fibres of these communities together since they were highly regarded. 

Colonialism is a term where a country conquers and rules over other regions. It means exploiting the resources of the conquered country for the benefit of the conqueror. Imperialism means creating an empire, expanding into the neighbouring regions and expanding its dominance far.Imperialism is a type of advocacy of empire. Its name originated from the Latin word “imperium”, which means to rule over large territories. Imperialism is “a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means”. Imperialism has greatly shaped the contemporary world.

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years’ War of 1756-1763. The war pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as by Native American allies. At the start of the war, the French North American colonies had a population of roughly 60,000 European settlers, compared with 2 million in the British North American colonies

As early as 1700, we find the English fur traders plying their trade in the Ohio valley. They were from the southern colonies

The Fortress of Louisbourg (French: Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a National Historic Site of Canada and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French struggle for what today is Canada

The Expulsion of the Acadians, also known as the Great Upheaval, the Great Expulsion, the Great Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement, was the forced removal by the British of the Acadian people from the present day Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island —an area also known as Acadia. The Expulsion occurred during the French and Indian War and was part of the British military campaign against New France