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People Of New France
The Sovereign Council
Intendant
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Worked to keep the colony in good shape, and make it less reliable on France to meet their basic needs.
Bishop
A Bishop Of Quebec, represented the Catholic Church.
The catholic church, played an important role, in the colony, as it did in New France.
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Governor
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Dealt with "external relations," such as the trade with the First Nations.
Soldiers
Under Frontenac, lots of soldiers came to New France to protect the colony against the Haudenosaunee and the British.
The king wanted military men to settle in New France, so he offered seigneuries to officers, who then encouraged the soldiers to settle in New France.
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Fur Traders
Coureur de Bois
At the start, the government of New France encouraged independent trading.
Later on, it made independent trading illegal, but this did not stop the coureurs de bois from selling their furs wherever they could.
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Merchants
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They traded goods with the Innu, Anishinabe and the Ouendat, among other First Nations, for furs.
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Voyageurs
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They were men from New France who travelled between the fur merchants of Montreal and the fur trade posts of the Great Lakes, and at last further west.
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Farmers
Habitants
In exchange for the right to establish a farm, they had to clear the land, plant crops and build a house.
Some habitants neglected Seigneurs farms because they found the fur trade an easier way to make a living in New France.
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Seigneurs
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To keep their land grants, they had to recruit habitants to farm the land.
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