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NEW FRANCE (The Sovereign Council (Intendant (The intendant was the chief…
NEW FRANCE
The Sovereign Council
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Bishop of Quebec
The Bishop represented the Catholic church which provided spiritual and moral guidance and founded schools, hospitals and orphanages.
The Catholic church made decisions that were sometimes so important that it could have affected the whole country.
Fur Traders
Merchants
These are types of merchants blacksmiths, shoemakers, masons, bakers and butchers.
Many of these merchants made their living through the fur trade. By buying fur from people with fur.
Voyagers
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These men would travel between fur merchants of Montreal and the fur trade posts of the Great Lakes, and eventually farther east
Coureur de Bois
These people run into the forest to trade with the first nations. They work independently which means everything earned is for them.
At first the government of New France encouraged independent trading, but then they decided to make it illegal.
Soldiers
Many soldiers went to New France to defend the colony against the Haudenosaunee and against the British.
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Farmers
Seigneurs
They were men from the noble families, but women and commoners could also become Seigneurs.
If they want to keep their land grants, they had to recruit people which are habitants to farm it. They also have to build a house for themselves and a flourmill and a church for the habitants.
Habitants
A habitant is probably your average person who depends on a Seigneur to live or they could go independent.
If a habitant wants to establish a farm they will have to clear the land. In exchange of the right to start a farm they will plant crops and build a house. They also had to pay the seigneurs miller to turn their grain into flour and give a few days of labour to the seigneur each year.
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