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New France facts
| Viceroyalty of New France | ||||||||||||||||
| Vice-royauté de Nouvelle-France | ||||||||||||||||
| French Province | ||||||||||||||||
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 Flag from 1663
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| Capital | Quebec | |||||||||||||||
| Languages | French | |||||||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | |||||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | |||||||||||||||
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| • | 1663–1715 | King Louis XIV | ||||||||||||||
| • | 1715–1763 | King Louis XV | ||||||||||||||
| Legislature | Sovereign Council of New France | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| • | Royal Control | 1663 | ||||||||||||||
| • | Articles of Capitulation of Quebec | 1759 | ||||||||||||||
| • | Articles of Capitulation of Montreal | 1760 | ||||||||||||||
| • | Treaty of Paris (1763) | February 10 (1763) 1763 | ||||||||||||||
| Currency | New France livre | |||||||||||||||
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| Today part of |  Canada United States France (Saint Pierre and Miquelon) |
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New France was a colony settled by France in North America. The regions in New France included Quebec, Acadia, and Louisiana. Quebec City was its capital. The French settled there after finding Quebec and in doing so created New France. The colony was most valuable for its fur trade. France lost the colony during the French and Indian War and it became part of British North America
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Images
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A map of New France made by Samuel de Champlain in 1612.
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Champlain's Habitation c. 1608
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A map of western New France, including the Illinois Country, by Vincenzo Coronelli, 1688.
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One group of King's Daughters arrives at Quebec, 1667
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Map of Canada (New France) in North America 1703
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Map showing the approximate location of major tribes and settlements.
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The arrival of Radisson in an Amerindian camp in 1660.
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1681 French map of the New World above the equator: New France and the Great Lakes in the north, with a dark line as the Mississippi River to the west in the Illinois Country and the mouth of the river (and future New Orleans) then terra incognita
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Engraving depicting Adam Dollard with a keg of gunpowder above his head, during the Battle of Long Sault.
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Map showing British territorial gains following the Treaty of Paris in pink, and Spanish territorial gains after the Treaty of Fontainebleau in yellow.
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A chart showing the political organization of New France, circa 1759