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People of New France - Coggle Diagram
People of New France
Soverighn Council
Governor
Represented the King
Controlled military
Intendant
Worked to keep the colony in good order
He kept his eye out for ways to exploint the colony from the benefits of france
The chief administrador of the colony
Bishop
Provided spuiritual and moral guidence
Established a semitary
Represented the Catholic church
Soldiers
The king wanted military men to settle in New France
Many men have chosen military career just becaue they need to make a living
Many soldiers came to new france to defend the colony
The Fur Traders
Coureue de Bois
Coureue de Bois means runner of the woods because the men ran into the woods to trade with the FN
The coureurs worked indipendantly by themseves
The term Coureue de Bois comes from the way some men engage in the fur trade
Voyagers
Vayagers where men from New France that traveled between the fur merchants
The word voyager means traveller
Merchants
They imported goods from france
Merchants shipped the furs to france to then make a profit from selling them
Many merchants made their living in the fur trade
The Catholic Church/Clergy
Britan was a Protestant countray that has laws that prevented catholics from serving in government
Catholic Curch also played a high priority to conver the FN to Catholism
The Catholic Church played an important role in the identity of New France
Farmers
Habitants
Habitants where recruited by Seigneurs to keep their land grants
In exchange for the rights to establish a farm, habitants had to clear the land
Farmers who lived on Seigneuries
Seigneuries
Owned by landloards
Large plots of land
Landloard recieved the land from the King of France