Definitions
What was the crown?
a symbolic term referring to the monarch of a country.
Who was the seigneur?
a man who was granted land (a seigneurie) by the King of France.
Catholic faith
Could the farmers own land on the seigneurie?
What does it mean to be a cartographer?
Someone who makes maps. Samuel de Champlain was the cartographer who mapped out the Great Lakes.
Missionary priest who were sent from France to spread the Gospel to the First Nations.
Who were the filles du roi?
young women, often orphans in the care of the Church sent to marry settlers in New France.
What was the main purpose of the Jesuits?
- To spread the Roman Catholic faith to the First nations people.
- To establish a school for boys
Where were seigneurie located?
Beside the St. Lawrence river.
To make top hats that would be sold in France.
What was Saint-Marie among the Hurons?
An agricultural and missionary center where Jesuits spread the Gospel to First Nations.
What is a dowry?
a sum of money or personal property that a woman takes into a marriage.
What does the word protestant mean?
What are 2 features of the seigneurie?
- It was set beside the river to provide water for farming and
- personal use, for transportation by canoe, and for fishing.
• The fields were long and narrow to let as many habitant
families as possible have access to the water.
• The seigneur retained a large section to provide a site for a church, a lumber mill, a grain mill, etc.
• Common land provided a site for social and recreational events.
How did the Europeans increase rivalries between the Iroquois and the Huron people?
When the French came over they formed an alliance with the Huron and together they fought the Iroquois. This increase rivalries because the Iroquois felt the Huron betrayed their people.
Who were the coureurs des bois?
A french term meaning "runners of the woods". These were Europeans who went inland to trade furs.
What does assimilate mean?
to absorb one groups of people into a larger group and make them the same.
What were the Ursuline Nuns responsible for?
What were TWO responsibilities of the habitant?
• grow crops and raise animals to support themselves
• give a portion of their production to the seigneur as rent
• work without pay for about ten days a year, planting and harvesting the seigneur’s personal fields
• provide free labour to build and maintain a church and roadways on the seigneurie
• pay taxes to the Church and to the government
Why did some European men marry First Nations women?
Who were the habitants?
The farmers who worked the land owned by seigneurs.
Who were the Metis people?
People who had one First Nation parent and one European parent.
Who was Marie Martin?
A 20 year old widow who came to New France and built the Ursuline Mission
What did the habitants do in the winter months?
• cared for animals
• cut trees for firewood
What were three affects the Europeans had on the First Nations?
- Trade alcohol with them that even cause some to become addicted.
- Made the too reliant on European goods
- Brought over diseases like small pox.