3 New France 1534–1763 ---age of colonization
• Quebec City in 1608 • Conflicts in New France
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definition
• It refers to the French empire in North America from 1608 to 1763
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Conflicts in New France
• New France
English colonies
• An uneven contest, in which the French in Canada were greatly outnumbered.
• A result of numerous wars between the parent countries, English and France.
• The Norse were the first to arrive around the year 1000.
• However, the Norse dventures in Canada came to an end well before 14th and 15th century.
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• There are several reports of contact made before Christopher Columbus and the age of discovery between First Nations, Inuit and those from other continents.
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Reason for conflicts
• Resulted deeply from competition for the wealth of the fur trade in the Northwest. (present-day Manitoba and beyond)
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Historic facts
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The name of the country, Canada, was derived from the Huron-Iroquois “Kanata”, meaning a village or settlement.
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2 European contact ---
contact and conflict
• The 17th century, Britain ,France launch a struggle for Canada, the auk occupied some surrounding regions around the French territory , thus besieged the latter.
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• The earliest known documented European exploration in Canada are described in the Icelandic Sagas, which recount the attempted Norse colonization of the Americas
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1 Pre-Columbian era – primitive stage
• The first inhabitants are believed to have come to Canada from Asia about 12000years ago.
• Some likely crossed a temporary land bridge that joined Siberia and Alaska.
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• 1 Pre-Columbian era • 2 European contact • 3 New France 1534–1763 • 4 the government of British and the
establishment of federal state • 5 Recent development
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• one of the oldest European settlements in North America
• Champlain's founding of Quebec City in 1608, by Samuel de Champlain
• Marked the beginning of New France, and thus the true beginning of Canada.
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Samuel de Champlain
(1567 or 1580 – December 25, 1635)
•"The Father of New France”
•began exploring North America in 1603
•the first European to explore and describe the Great Lakes, and published maps of his journeys and accounts of what he learned from the natives and the French living among the Natives.
•formed relationships with local people
•In 1620, devoted himself to the administration of the country.
•established trading companies that sent goods, primarily fur, to France, and oversaw the growth of New France in the St. Lawrence River valley until his death in 1635.
• Bit by bit , this conflicts between two powers came into a war----- Seven Years’ War(1756-1763)