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People of New France
The Sovereign Council
The Bishop of Quebec
the Bishop of Quebec represented the Catholic Church. the catholic church played a big/important role in the colony. it had provided spiritual and moral guidance, they founded hospital, schools, and orphanages. they catholic clergy had managed to stay strong even when new France became a British colony.
a Governor
a governor is a person who represented the king and controlled the military, and they also looked after the defence of the colony. he would also deal with "external relationship" like trading with the first nation.
an Intendant
an intendant was the chief administrator of the colony. the person would also try to keep the colony in good order, and he would try to make it less dependant on France to keep their basic needs
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Soldiers
the king wanted military men to settle into new France, so he decided to offer seigneurs to officers, who the encourage their soldiers to settle on their land.
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many soilders came to new France to defend the colony against haudenosaunee and against the british.
Farmers
Seigneurs
most seigneurs were men from noble families, women and commoners could also become seigneurs.
seigneurs were large plots of land that were owned by seigneurs and would receive the lands from the king of France as grants.
the seigneurs had to find habitats or recruit settlers to farm their land if they wants to keep their land grants.
Habitants
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in exchange for the right to establish a farm, the habitants had to clear the land and plant crops and build a house. they also had to pay the seigneur's miller to grind their grain into flour. some habitants neglected their farms because they found the fur trade an easier way to make a living in new France
The Fur Traders
Merchants
Coureur De Bois
they ran through the forest because it was illegal to trade independent and that was why they were running throw the forest to hide and trade with first nations in secret.
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the name comes from some men from the fur trade by running in to the forest, to seek and trade with the first nations.
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, eventually further west.
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many kinds of businesses grew in Quebec, Montreal, and Trois-Rivieres