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People Of New France - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Chief administrator of the colony
      - Also kept an eye out on how to exploit the colony for benefit of France
      - Worked to keep the colony in good order and less dependent on France
- - - - Coureur de Bois means runner of the woods the term comes from the way men from New Franc engaged in the fur trade- by 'running' into the forest to seek First Nations to trade with
      - Even though independent trading was made illegal this did not stop the Coureur de Bois and traded whenever and wherever they could even with British colonies
      - Coureurs traded -for themselves independently. At first New France liked the idea of independent trading but soon made it illegal.
    - - Voyageur means traveler
      - Voyagers were men from New France that travelled between fur merchants in Montreal and the fur trade posts of The Great Lakes and eventually further west.
    - - Many merchants made their living off the fur trade and imported goods from France, and traded and trade these goods with Innu , the Outdent and the Anishinaabe among with other First Nations, for Furs
      - Many kinds of Business grew up in Quebec, Montreal, and Trois-Rivieres. Strolling through these settlements you would see that these shops of merchants such as blacksmiths,masons,buthcers,shoemakers and bakers
- - - - Seigneurs also acted like landlords who received the land as grants from the king of France
      - To keep their land grants
      - Seigneurs owned large plots of land called seigneuries
    - - habitants were often peasants that rarely owned anything and their seigneurs often owned them
      - seigneurs needed people to clear the land and habitants would do that job so if the habitant were to need people to clear the land for a trade to establish a farm that's what happened
      - Habitants were farmers that lived on seigneuries