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PEOPLE OF NEW FRANCE - Coggle Diagram
PEOPLE OF NEW FRANCE
The Fur Traders
Merchants
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Merchants are stores like blacksmiths, shoemakers, masons, bakers and butchers
Coueurs de Bois
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Making independent trading illegal didn't stop the Coueurs de Bois , who sold their furs wherever they could, even in the British Colonies.
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Voyageurs
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The voyageurs were men from New France who travelled between the fur merchants of Montreal and the fur trade posts of the Great Lakes, and eventually further west
Soldiers
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Under Frontenac, many soldiers came to New France to defend the colony against the Haudenosaunee and against the British.
The Catholic Church
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The church provided moral direction, and also founded hospitals, orphanages and schools.
Sovereign council
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Bishop
Francois de Laval, Bishop of Quebec during the late 1600s, established a seminary to train priests in New France-today's Laval University
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Governor
In 1672, Frontenac was appointed governor of New France by King Louis XIV.
A governor represents the king, controlled the military, and looked after the defence of the colony.
Farmers
Seigneurs
Seigneuries were large plots of land owned by landlords who received the land as grants from the king of France.
Most seigneurs were men from noble families, but women and commoners could also become seigneurs
To keep their land grants, seigneurs had to recruit habitants to farm it
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