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Secondary III Chapter 2 Part 4 New France in the First Half of the 18th…
Secondary III Chapter 2 Part 4 New France in the First Half of the 18th Century
Population growth
1713: 24 000 people
1752: 75 300 people
60 000 of them were francophones
Francophones developed a ''canadien'' identity
85% of them lived in rural areas
the urban population lived in Quebec, Montreal or Trois-Rivières.
Economic development
Michel Begon & Gilles Hocquart
Shipyards, warships, timber, flax, hemp
Hemp cultivation + Timber exploitation + Sawmills
Forges du Saint-Maurice 1738-1883
Chemin du Roy 1737
Fishing
Agriculture
Triangular trade
Ships are never empty
Ships leaving France have transformed materials
Ships leaving New France and West Indies have raw materials
Acclimatization
Transformation
Clothes: belt, hat, boots, wool.
House building techniques: double window paned, woodstove.
First Nations influence: canoe, snowshoes
