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People of New France
Sovereign Council
Intendant
The Intendant also worked to keep the colony in good order, and made it dependent on France to meet its basic needs.
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Bishop of Quebec
The Catholic Church played a very important role in the colony as well as New France, because it provided spiritual and moral guidance, founded schools, hospitals and orphanages.
The impact of the Catholic Church stayed strong, even after New France became a British colony.
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Governor
The Governor represented the king, controlled the military and looked after the defence of the colony.
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Fur Traders
Voyageurs
Voyageurs were men from New France who travelled between the fur merchants of Montréal, the Great Lakes, and further west.
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Merchants
Merchants imported goods from France,and traded them with the Innu, the Ouendat and the Anishinabe.
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Coureurs de Bois
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Originally, the governor of France encouraged working independently, but soonly it was made illegal, but coureurs continued to work independently.
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Soldiers
Since the king wanted soldiers to settle in New France, he gave seigneuries to officers, who convinced soldiers to settle.
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Catholic Church/Clergy
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The Catholic Church provided spiritual and moral guidance, founded schools, hospitals and orphanages.
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Farmers
Habitants
Habitants means inhabitants, which are people who inhabit the land.
In France, Habitants are called peasants, and their seigneur owned them.
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Seigneurs
To keep the land they owned, seigneurs had to recruit habitants to farm it.
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Seigneurs own seigneuries, which Habitants live on.