New France Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
area colonized by France in North America
About New France
The History of New France spans more than two hundred years and includes most of the Eastern half of North America plus the Caribbean. Two of the most important early explorers wereJacques CartierandSamuel de Champlain. In general the story of the French colonial experiment is that, unlike theSpanish Empire, the French found no existing indigenous empires to plunder or major deposits of minerals to exploit, and unlike theEnglish coloniesnearby, very few French men and women came to the Western Hemisphere to settle. The French colonies were primarily concerned with the lucrativefur tradein the north and withplantation slaveryin the south. French relations withindigenous peopleswere generally good, or at least better than the Spanish and English, with the notable exception of a bitter enmity
New France Travel Guide Sections
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