New Society

 New France as a society began to develop in different ways from the mother country.

This is the marriage certificate of Catherine Moitie, one of the Filles du Roi, and her husband, Henry Le Moyne. They would have ten children.

More artifacts of the period are seen here.

The sculpture I showed you yesterday is here again. Catherine Moitie is listed at its base. Each line represents each of her children, and their children. Within five generations she had 600 descendants.

Far from France, people built their own lives. This included items for their own homes. This cabinet is a well preserved example.

Increasingly the settlers began to be known as Canadiens.

While New France was busily being established, the old rival of the French was busy too. England had established colonies in what is today the Atlantic provinces, and further south along the Atlantic seaboard in what is today the United States (ungrateful colonials....). They were also busy on the fur trade deep in the interior of the continent.

This map of trading routes also shows a whole lot of territory that both the English and the French thought belonged to them. It was just a matter of time before their old rivalry would erupt in the New World.