SOC 2309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Quebec Act, Age Of Enlightenment, Seigneurial System Of New France
7 Sep 2016
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The idea was to make the region a completely catholic state. British used their new lands as areas where they sent people that they didn"t want in england (puritans went to canada, prisoners went to australia etc) They wanted to retain complete control over new france and thus it didn"t grow nearly as far. The british wanted to make canada as part of a parliament state (which they would still have control) France wanted to make new france part of their own country (rather than an extension) There was a major lack of women in the new france population, meaning their population was dwindling but there weren"t enough wives to for all the men (7 men :1 women) Many men started taking on aboriginal wives (which continued throughout the 17th/18th century. Another problem/concern was the ongoing alliances with the first. New law that stated that france would govern new france. New france didn"t have enough direct control from france.
