New France
The Sovereign Council
Soldiers
Farmers
Fur Trades
Intendant
Bishop of Quebec
Governor
Also dealt with exernal relations an example of this would be the trade with the FAs
Represented the king of France In the colony
HE worked to keep the colony in order and to make it able to be more independent which means not needing as much resources from France itself
He represented the Cathloic Church
The catholic church is very important it does most of the building and school planning for the colony and the bishop represented the church making the bishop very powerful
He found ways to exploit the Colony so that France could benefit
Lots of soldiers came to New France
The king offered benefits to soldiers who came to New France
Defended the colony against the Haudenosaunee
The Catholic Church/Clergy
Habitants
Seigneurs
The habitats had to do all the farming work if they wanted to stay on the land and they owed some of the harvest to the Seigneurs
Habitats sometimes wouldn't even want to farm and do fur trade sometimes there were arguments between the Seigneurs and the habitats and those often went to court
They were farmers who who lived on seigneuries
Seigneuries are massive plots of land and those plots were owned by Seigneurs
The land was granted to the Seigneurs by The king Of France
To keep the land though the Seigneurs had to get habitats to come to the land and farm on it if they didn't the King of France would remove the plot
Voyageurs
Merchants
Coureur de Bois
The term comes from the people who run into the forest to
trade with The First Natios
They soon made this independent trading Illegal
Coureur de bois means runner of the woods
They imported goods from New france and Traded with The first Nation Alies
The merchants shipped the furs to France to hopefully make profit
Many merchants make their living from the fur trade
The voyagers would soon travel way farther West
They were men who traveed between the Merchants of Montreal and The ports of the Great Lakes
The church usually established things like schools, hospitals ect
The Catholic Church and the protestant church were in conflict
The Catholic Church was a very important identity of NEw FRance