New France
The Sovereign Council
Intendant
Bishop of Quebec
Governor
Represented the Catholic Church
And the Catholic Church played a very large role in the colony and it also played a big role in the colony in New France as well.
The Intendant kept the colony in good order
The Chief Administrator of the Colony
Controlled the military
Represented the King
Fur Traders
Merchants
Voyagers
Coureur de bois
The Coureurs worked independantly in the Fur Trade.
Lots of Merchants made their living off of the fur trade, and traded with the Innu.
They travelled between the fur trades and the great lakes
It means 'Runner of the woods" meaning that the some of the men run into the forest to join the fur trade with the First Nations
They are people who run shops like blacksmiths, shoemakers, masons, bakers and butchers.
And eventually they went further west.
Soldiers
A seigneury helped an office represent an opportunity to save his life.
The King wanted all of the officers to settle in New France and he offered them seigneuries and that made the soldiers feel better
Many of the soldiers came to New France to defend the colony against the Haudenosaunee and the British.
Farmers
Habitants
Seigneurs
Habitants live and grow all of their grops on Seigneurs and
A Habitant is a farmer who lived on seigneuries
Habitants had to clear the land, plant crops and build a house in order to make it a good seigneur to sell for good money.
Seigneurs or landlords receive seigneuries as a grant from the King of France
Seigneuries are large plots of land that the farmers would live on and farm on
Seigneurs are people who own or look after Seigneuries
The Catholic Church/Clergy
Britain didn't allow Catholics to be a part of the government is one examples of this.
These people called the Jesuits went around telling all the different First Nations to start believe in the catholic faith
People with two different faiths really disliked' each other and discriminated each other.