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