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New France (The Sovereign Council (Intendant (He wanted to keep the colony…
New France
The Sovereign Council
Intendant
He wanted to keep the colony in good order, and make it less dependent on France for meeting its basic needs.
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Bishop of Quebec
The Catholic Church played an important role in the colony, as it did in New France.
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it provided spiritual and moral guidance, and founded schools, hospitals and orphanages.
Fur Traders
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Coureur de Bois
The term comes from the way some men from New France engaged in the Fur trade by "Running into the forest" to seek and trade with First Nations.
The Government of New France made independent trading illegal, but This did not stop the coureurs de bois.
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Voyagers
The voyageurs were regarded as legendary, especially in French Canada.
The voyageurs were French Canadians who engaged in the transporting of furs by canoe during the fur trade years.
Most voyageurs would start working when they were twenty-two and they would continue working until they were in their sixties.
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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.
Seigneurs
The Seigeurs gave the Habitants a small plot of land to live on in their large plot of land that they govern.
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France gave the Seigneurs who were the wealthy people from France large plots of land to govern and live on in New France.
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