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