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New France:Who's Who? - Coggle Diagram
New France:Who's Who?
The Sovereign Council
Governor
- Represented the king and controlled the military. Took care of the defence of their colony.
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Intendant
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- Kept the colony in order and to make it more situated with materials so they didn't have to ask for materials from France.
- Watched for new ways to make the colony helpful to France.
Bishop of Quebec
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3.Also founded schools,hospitals, and orphanages,the clergy would help make people's decisions before they made them.
Soldiers
- Soldiers would come to New France to protect the colony against the Haudenosaunee and British
- The King of New France would send out seigneuries to convince soldiers to settle in their colony.
- Lots of the men chose to change their career to military because they needed money to survive.
"Farmers"
Seigneurs: 1.Are land owners owning big plots of lands. 2. Most were from noble families but also commoners could be seigneurs too. 3.To keep their land grants they had to recruit habitants to farm their land.
Habitants: 1.Farmers that worked on Seigneur's lands. They had to farm,plant crops and build a house 2. Habitants are people that inhabit the land. 3. Habitants were poor and had to pay the seigneur's mill to grind their grain into flour and give corvee. So many became settlers of the Fur Trade because it was easier to make a living with it.
Fur Traders
Coureur de Bois: 1.Trade with First Nations often illegally. 2.Once were habitants but wanted to become part of the fur trade. 3. They worked independently by themselves even when it was illegal to support themselves.
Merchants: 1. Some were blacksmiths, shoemakers,masons,bakers and butchers. 2. Imported goods from France and traded the goods to the First Nations. 3. Bought furs from courer de bois and others for extra incomes,they shipped them to France for profit.
Voyageurs: 1. Were men from New France travelling through fur merchants 2.They traveled between the fur merchants of Montreal and the posts of the Great Lakes and soon farther west trading for fur.
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