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Canada. United States. The colony of Canada was a French colony within the larger territory of New France. It was claimed by France in 1535 during the second voyage of Jacques Cartier, in the name of the French king, Francis I. The colony remained a French territory until 1763, when it became a British colony known as the Province of Quebec.
New France ( French: Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris . A vast viceroyalty, New France consisted of five colonies ...
The death occured at the Palliative Care Unit of the Western Hospital, Alberton, on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, with his loving family by his side, of Alfred Joseph Hackett of Tignish, PEI, age 69 years. Born at Alberton on July 15, 1954, he was the son of the late Alfred Harold and Alfreda Mary (nee Nelligan) Hackett.Loving father to Melissa ...
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Mar 20, 2024 · The French planted a cross in the Gaspé Peninsula in 1534 and claimed the land in the name of Francis I, creating a region called "Canada" the following summer. There were four French and Indian Wars and two additional wars in Acadia and Nova Scotia between the Thirteen American Colonies and New France from 1688 to 1763. As part of the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), signed after the ...
Events. France sends two battalions to Canada, with provisions, and 1,300,000 livres, in specie, which has the effect of depreciating the paper currency by 25 per cent. March - A Canadien force of 300 captures Fort Bull, between Schenectady and Oswego, and puts the garrison to the sword. May - Montcalm reaches Quebec with 1,400 soldiers.
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Life in New France, as in France itself, was based on a hierarchy that was quite paternalistic. Although there were drawbacks to this, there were advantages too. Most of the time, the head of this hierarchy, the king, felt obliged to be a good king, rather than a tyrant, and provide certain measures of social security and justice for his subjects.
