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the ice bridge was during the time of the ice age. when the water froze the europeens walked over the ocean to new france.
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jacques cartier explored the st lawrence river looking for a route to asia, riches and land for the king of france.
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samuel de champlain founded quebec in order to trade furs with the amerindiens. quebec was also a place to control rivver traffic
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the companie of one hundred associates primary objective was to populate the province of new france.
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siuer de laviolette was in charge of finding a place for a scond settlement and making it.
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the founding of ville-marie was buy sieur de maisonneuve and paul chomedy
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les filles du roi were sent to new france to help populate at a time when men out numbered women by a lot.
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the soldiers were sent to live in new france for a property in return of military duty.
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the king demanded jean talon to take a census of the population of new france. this data reveled that 3173 men could be recruited for military work
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the end of the war between the french and the iroquois that had lasted a full century.
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there were approximately 4000 slaves during the entire french regime
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the fertility rate in 1720 was about 9 children per women.
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the first wave of immigration was in the 1780s when the french sent over 45,000 people.
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the british wave of immigration came after the war of 1812.
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in the 1830's british immigrants brought cholera, a deadly disease
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the irish wave of immigration came right before the first world war and they were short of food sources.
