New France 🇫🇷
The Sovereign Council
Soldiers
Farmers
Fur Traders
The Catholic Churgh/Clergy
Governor
Intendant
Bishop of Quebec
People came to the Clergy to consult them before making important decisions.
Represented the Catholic Church
Controlled military and looked after the defence of the colony
Represented the King
King wanted military men to settle in New France.
Seigneuries were assigned to officers who then encouraged soldiers to come to New France
Had to defend the colony against the Haudenosaunee and british
Had an active role in governing the colony.
Chief administrator of the colony
Worked to keep colony in good order, and make it less dependent on France for meeting basic needs
Kept his eye out for ways to exploit the colony for the benefit of France
Habitants
Seigneurs
Habitants would be called paysans/peasants
Some habitants would neglect their farms because they found the fur trade an easier way to make life in New France
Were farmers who lived on seigneuries
Recruited habitants to farm it and had to build a house for themselves, a flour-mill, and a church for the habitants.
Most Seigneurs were noble men
Owned paysans/peasants
Coureur de Bois
Merchants
Voyaguers
Means traveller
Were men from New France and travelled between the fur trades of Montreal and fur trade posts of the Great Lakes
Was neutral (sided with both British and French)
Seeking out First Nation traders and supplies of beaver that he could bring into the fur trade.
A runner of the woods. worked for himself mostly
Many merchants made their living in the fur trade
They then shipped the furs to France and hoped they would make a profit.
Imported goods from France and. traded them with the First Nations and bought furs from the coureur de bois and other colonists
Jesuits-a Catholic religious order, came to New France in the early 1600s and established missions among the Mi'kmaq, the Kichesiprini, the Haudenosaunee, and the Ouendat to convert the nations to Catholicism.
Church also established schools, hospitals, and orphanages in New France and governed the colony.
Played an important role in the identity of New France