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People of New France
Sovereign Council
Governor
The governor represented the King, controlled the military, and looked after the defence of the colony.
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Bishop of Quebec
provides spiritual and moral
guidance, and founded schools, hospitals and orphanages.
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Members of the Catholic church also had a open role in governing the colony. The influence of the church stayed in power until they joined the British colony.
Intendant
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They worked to keep the colony is good order and make them less dependant on France for their basic needs and become more independent.
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Soldiers
The King only wanted the military men to settle in France, so the kind decided to encourage seigneurs officers, to encourage there military men to come and settle into there land.
The seigneur's officers made good opportunities for officers to change their life, and with new habitats.
A lot of the men only had chosen the military career just because the men only wanted to make a living.
The soldiers finally came to New France and try to defend the colony against the Haudenosaunee and also against the British.
Fur Traders
Coureur de Bois
Courier de Bois means "runner of the woods'". The term comes from the way some men in New france engaged in the fur trade. By running into the forest to seek and trade with the First nations
Although it ended up making independent trading illegal. But it never stopped the coureur de bois, and they sold their fur wherever they could, even in the British Colonies.
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Merchants
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When you were strolling through the settlements, you would see merchants selling bread, shoe-wear, butchers, and blacksmiths
The merchants then shipped furs to France, where they sold them hoping for a profit
Voyageurs
They were men who travelled between the fur merchants of Montréal and the fur trade post of the great lakes, and eventually further west
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Farmers
Habitants
Habitants mean inhabitants- people who inhabit land. In France they would have been called paysans (peasants) and were often owned by seigneurs.
If a habitants wanted to establish a new farm they had to clear the land, plant the crops and build a house. They also had to pay the seigneur's miller to grind their grain into flour and give a few days of labour each year to the seigneur. This labour was called "corvée".
Habitants were farmers who lived on seigneuries. (Seigneuries were large plots of land owned by seigneurs, or landlords, who received the land as grants from the King of France.)
Seigneurs
Seigneuries had to keep their land grants, had to recruit settlers to farm it, and they had to build homes for themselves and others
Were large plots of land owned by Seigneuries or landlords who received land from the King of France
most seigneurs were men from noble families, women and commoners could also become seigneurs.
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