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The Company of New France, or Company of One Hundred Associates (Compagnie des Cent-Associés) as it was more commonly known, was formed in France in 1627. Its purpose was to increase New France’s population while enjoying a monopoly on almost all colonial trade. It took bold steps but suffered many setbacks.
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New France. France was a colonial power in North America from the early 16th century, the age of European discoveries and fishing expeditions, to the early 19th century, when Napoléon Bonaparte sold Louisiana to the United States. French presence in North America was marked by economic exchanges with Indigenous peoples, but also by conflicts ...
Jul 8, 2021 · Last Edited July 8, 2021. New France was a French colony in North America. By the early 1740s, France controlled what is known today as the Maritime provinces, much of modern-day Ontario and Quebec, and the Hudson Bay region. The territory also stretched from today’s Northeastern United States to the Gulf of Mexico.
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The first peoples to settle what is modern-day Canada were Paleo-Indians who had crossed the Bering Straits (at that time dry land, with sea levels lower then today during the last Ice Age) from Siberia sometime between 35,000 BCE and 10,500 BCE. These groups specialized in hunting the giant mammals (“megafauna”) such as woolly mammoths, bighorn bi...
In 1534, the French explorer Jaques Cartier claimed the Gulf of St Lawrence for France. In the following decades, English and French fishermen set up seasonal fishery camps in and around Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. In the 1580s a group of English fishermen established a permanent settlement at Harbour Grace, in Newfoundland, and French fur trader...
In what was to become Canada, there were now four, soon five, distinct territories under British control. Each was under its own governor, appointed by the British government. He was advised by a council.
By the 1860s it was becoming widely accepted that the division of British North America amongst multiple administrations was not helping the economic development of the vast region. Moreover, an expanding, land-hungry southern neighbor was a source of anxiety to Canadian (and British) politicians, who wished to create a more effective defense syste...
One issue which had dogged Canada throughout its existence was the status of the French-speaking population. The issue had been inflamed by the execution of Louis Reil, who was seen as a martyr by many French-Canadians; and was a source of tension in the western provinces, where the French-speaking Catholics pushed for their own schools (which even...
Nov 30, 2020 · Throughout the history of New France, soldiers and hired labourers (“engagés”) who crossed the Atlantic were the primary settlers in Canada. Those young se...
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