CANS 200 Lecture : France in Canada
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England will become that commercial empire, francis doesn"t develop the trading triangle. New france is a corporate colony until 1663. Royal authority is indirect and companies have king-like powers of justice, warfare, etc. Corporate rule fails and the king louis xiv assumes direct control in 1663, tries to balance commercial and political interests. Peripheries remain largely ungoverned, violent place (newfoundland, Strategic importance of canada grows and by the mid 18th century fuels a world war that france cannot contain (web ct) French crown licenses companies (serially): they own new france more or less outright in return for settling the land and upholding french interests there. Only serious one is hundred associates of 1627 1663. Virtually a crown corporation: louis xiii and cardinal richelieu sink money into it (immediately lost to privateers) and refuse to let it go bankrupt. They fed up of all the companies who don"t do anything. 1620"s that want a serious strategic presence in new france.