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The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists

Though the French and British colonies in North America began on a 'level playing field', French political conservatism and limited investment allowed the Briti

A brief overview of French colonial society before the British conquest of 1759-60. The primary focus is on what is now called Quebec, but there are also chapte

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying

From the early sixteenth century, thousands of fishermen-traders from Basque, Breton, and Norman ports crossed the Atlantic each year to engage in fishing, whal