New france

soverign council

Fur traders

Farmers

Soldiers

Indendant

Bishop of Quebec

governor

Seigneurs

Habitants

Merchants

Voyageurs

Coureur de Bois

The Catholic Church/Clergy

The catholic church played an important role in organizing french society

The Church provived moral direction, and also found hospitals , orphanges and schools.

people of two faiths were discriminated agaisnt each other. for example, Britain was a Protestant country and had laws preventing catholic from serving the government

Often wealthy

many buisnesses grew up in Quebec

wealth, even without nobilty, comanded respect and prestige.

they travelled between the fur merchants of Montreal and the fur trade post of the great lakes, and eventually further west.

It mean "Traveller"

They were men from new France

They run into the forest to trade with the first nations.

New France encouraged independant trading

it means "runner of the woods"

their reputation depended on their standing in the church

who represented the Catholic Church

he worked to keep the colony in good order

The cheif administrator of the colony

he also found new ways to exploit the colony for the benefit of France

who represented the king

he also delt with "external relations" such as trading with the first nations

controlled the military

Most men chose a military career only because they needed a way tto make a living

A seignury represeted an oppurtunity for a officer to change his life

Many soldier came to New France to defend a colony against the Haudensaunee and against the British

Some habitants neglected their farms because they found the fur trade was much easier way to make a living in New France

they were people that lived on seigneuries

in exchange for the right to establish a farm, habitants ha to clear land, plant crops, and build a house

To keep their land grants, seigneurs had to recruit settlers (habitants) to farm it.

Sometimes seigneurs went to court becuase they have not followed through their obligations.

Seigneurs were large ploats of land owned by seigneurs (or land lords)

Catholic people consulted the clurgy before making important decisions