The People of New France By Aidan Cha
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- The Filles Du Roi
- The Filles Du Roi were unmarried women and widows who were sponsored by the king to immigrate to New France between 1663-1673. The colony needed women to marry the male colonists and raise families so the King sent about 900 single young women and girls to become wives. If they married, the king gave each couple an ox, a cow, two pigs, two chickens, some salt beef, and a purse of money. Within 14 years, the population of New France grew from 3200 to 10 000.
- The nuns who went to New France helped build the colony as well as hold religious services, teach the children at school and care for the poor. The nuns took in and taught Native girls, converted them to Catholicism, and then allowed them to return to their homes. The nuns believed that their young women converts would teach Catholic doctrine and French culture to their communities, speeding up the process of converting Native communities.
- The Nuns
- The Coureur Du Bois
- The Coureur Du Bois were unlicensed fur traders from New France also known as "The runners of the woods". They established contacts with the First Nations and sought for fur from beavers, foxes, otters, ermines, muskrats, deer and moose. They obtained these furs by trading with the Indigenous.
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