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Marquis de Vaudreuil. The conquest of New France (French: La Conquête ) – the military conquest of New France by Great Britain during the Seven Years' War of 1756–1763 – started with a British campaign in 1758 and ended with the region being put under a British military regime between 1760 and 1763. Britain's acquisition of Canada became ...
Succeeded by. Canada (New France) Province of Quebec (1763–1791) Nova Scotia. Prince Edward Island. New Brunswick. Province of Massachusetts Bay. Acadia (French: Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River. [1]
After New France was ceded to Great Britain's control in 1763, there was an important distinction between French Métis born of francophone voyageur fathers and the Anglo-Métis (known as "country born" or Mixed Bloods, for instance in the 1870 census of Manitoba) descended from English or Scottish fathers.
The new card money would be redeemed each year for goods or bills of exchange, which could be redeemed in France (Bank of Canada 1990, 7). Unfortunately, the new card money quickly gave rise to the same issues as before, and during the War of the Spanish Succession finances in France went from bad to bankruptcy (Heaton 1928, 655). By 1757, the ...
English Canada. Approximately 98 percent of Canadians can speak either or both English and French: English – 56.9%. English and French – 16.1%. French – 21.3%. Sparsely populated area ( < 0.4 persons per km 2) English Canada comprises that part of the population within Canada, whether of British origin or otherwise, that speaks English ...
The King's Daughters ( French: filles du roi, or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) is a term used to refer to the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV. The program was designed to boost New France's population both by encouraging ...
Pierre Boucher. Pierre Boucher de Boucherville (born Pierre Boucher; 1 August 1622 – 19 April 1717) was a French settler, soldier, officer, naturalist, official, governor, and ennobled aristocrat in Nouvelle-France or New France (in what is now Canada ).
