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New France Mind Map - Coggle Diagram
New France Mind Map
Catholic Church
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Founded Hospitals, Orphanages, and Schools
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Influence Remained Strong, Even After New France Became A British Colony
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Bishop of Quebec
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Founded Schools, Hospitals, And Orphanges
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Catholic People Consulted The Clergy Before Making Important Decisions, And Their Reputation Depended On Their Standing In The Church
Soldiers
Under Frontenac, many soldiers came to defend the colony against the Haudenosaunee and the British
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The king wanted military men to settle in New France, so he offered seigneuries to officers, who then encouraged their soldiers to settle on their land
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Fur Traders
Some habitants gave up farming altogether to make their living in the fur trade. They became coureurs de bois, working independently — often illegally — to trade with First Nations.
Coureur de bois means “runner of the woods.” The term comes from the way some men in New France engaged in the fur trade — by “running into the forest” to seek and trade with First Nations.
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At first, the government of New France encouraged independent trading. Soon, however, it made independent trading illegal. This did not stop the coureurs de bois, who sold their furs herever they could, even in the British colonies.
Habitants
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In exchange for the right to establish a farm, habitants had to
clear the land, plant crops and build a house.
Seigneurs
Most seigneurs were men from noble families, but women and commoners could also become seigneurs
Seigneuries were large plots of land owned by seigneurs — or landlords —who received the land as grants from the king of France
To keep their land grants, seigneurs had to recruit settlers —habitants — to farm it. They also had to build a house for themselves, and a flourmill and a church for the habitants.
Merchannts
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Strolling through these settlements, you would see the shops of merchants such as blacksmiths, shoemakers masons, bakers and butchers
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Voyageurs
Some habitants gave up farming altogether to make heir living in the fur trade. Some became voyageurs — men hired to paddle trade goods and furs in and out of the Great Lakes
The voyageurs
paddled the canoes up the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, heading to the fur trade forts in the west.
Voyageur means “traveller.” The voyageurs were men from New France who travelled between the fur merchants of Montréal and the fur trade posts of the Great Lakes, and eventually further west.