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New France was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 -
Explorer, cartographer and colonizer Samuel de Champlain was the founder of Quebec in 1608. He built the first permanent settlement in New France. -
Jesuit missionaries came to new France to convert Indigenous people to Christianity in 1626 -
Pierre-Espirit Radisson and Groseilliers founded the Hudson bay company with the help of the British. The Hudson Bay company was a fur trading company. -
In an effort to encourage settlement in New France, Louis the 14th sent young girls to be brides for fur traders and Courers de bois. -
The expulsion of the Acadians by the British begins: 6,000 to 10,000 Acadians were driven from their homes -
Wolfe defeats Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham they both end up dying -
New France surrenders to the British becoming a British colony. -
New France becomes a British colony the French lost all their lands to the western hemisphere. -
The Quebec act is passed by the British parliament recognizing the French Canadians right to preserve their language, religion, and civil law.