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New France (The Sovereign Council (Intendant (It's job was to keep the…
New France
The Sovereign Council
Intendant
It's job was to keep the colony in good order, and to make it less dependant on France (for meeting basic needs)
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Bishop Of Quebec
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It provided spiritual and moral guidance, and founded schools, and hospitals
The Catholic Church played an important role in the colony, as it did in New France
Governor
Represented the King, controlled the military, and looked after the defence of New France
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Fur Traders
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Voyagers
Most voyagers would start working when they were twenty-two and they would continue working until they were in their sixties
The voyagers were regarded as legendary, especially in French Canada
Coureur De Bois
The term comes from the way some men from New France engaged in the fir trade "Running into the forest" to seek and trade with First Nations
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The Government of New France made independent trading illegal, but this did not stop the Coureurs de Bois
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Farmers
Habitants
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Habitants were French settlers and the inhabitants of French origin who farmed the land along the two shores of the St. Lawrence River and Gulf
Most habitants grew crops that satisfied their own household needs for food and clothing rather than grow crops to sell on the market
Siegneurs
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They gave the Habitants a small plot of land to live on in their large plot of land that they govern
France gave the Seigneurs who were the people from France large plots of land to govern and live on in New France