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New France Mind Map - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Worked to keep the colony in good order
      - The chief administrator of the colony.
      - Kept an eye out for new ways to exploit the colony
    - - Provided spiritual and moral guidance, founded schools, hospitals, and orphanages
      - Represented the Catholic Church, as the Catholic Church played a big part in the colony.
      - Played and open and active part in governing the colony
    - - Controlled the military, while looking after the defence of the colony.
      - A governor would represent the king
- - - - Habitants are farmers who lived on seigneuries
    - - Habitants mean "inhabitants," people who inhabit the land
    - - To gain the right to establish a farm, habitants had to clear the land, plant crops, build a house, pay the seigneurs miller to grind the grain into flour, and and give a few days of labour to each seigneur.
  - - - In order to keep their land, seigneurs had to recruit settlers, or habitants, to farm the land
    - - Seigneuries were large large plots of land which were owned by seigneurs, or another word for them, landlords
- - - - Merchants
        
        They also bought furs from coureurs de bois and other colonists who traded in furs for extra income
        
        They would import goods from France and traded the goods with the Innu, Ouendat, Anishinabe, and other First Nations group for fur.
        
        Many merchants made their living in the fur trade
    - - Voyageurs were men from New France who travelled between the fur merchants of Montreal and the fur trade posts of the Great Lakes
      - Voyageur means traveller
    - - This term comes from they way some men in New France engaged in the fur trade, by running into the forest
      - Coureur de bois means "runner of the woods"
      - The coureurs work independently for themselves.
- - - - Played an important role in the identity of New France
      - Jesuits were a Catholic religious order. They formed missions among the M'ikmaq and the Ouendat to convert them to Catholic Faith
      - The clergy were a small group of people who were able to read and write. They were consulted before an important decision was made