Hamish is fierce, coming across as a Colonial Dark Knight as he doggedly seeks the truth of what happened to Cross, unafraid to step on any toes and speaking truth to power. New France, as this land was once called, consisted of five colonies that covered a massive swath of North America, stretching from Hudson Bay in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south. It took them no time to locate a priest and a teenage girl, both in shock, survivors of something than not of the massacre.
Disease and war caused The descendants of the original French-speaking Canadians went on to identify as Québécois and even fuel As the show opens, the idealist among the new settlers arriving at Wobik Settlement was Rene Sel. A woodcutter like his father and his grandfather before him, Rene wanted to be something more. And because food was so plentiful in the colony, the filles du roi were more likely than their counterparts in continental France to survive their pregnancies and produce healthy, surviving children.The filles du roi werenât the only people Louis XIV sent to New France.
Then there were the scoundrels, such as Sel's friend Charles Duquet, a thief who chose exile over jail, then whined about it all the way from France to Canada. What isn't clear is what fallout there will be for the massacre. But the colony floundered at first due to a lack of settlers, difficulties accessing the riches Champlain had boasted about, and conflict with the Iroquois.Life in Canada was challenging.
Though they were poorly outfitted and ill-equipped to deal with the guerrilla tactics of their Iroquois rivals, their arrival put France at a tactical advantage. They also helped French settlers navigate waterways and forests.
Trade suffered as colonists tried to defend themselves.âA woman lives with the constant fear that her husband, who has left that morning to work, will be killed or captured and that she will never see him again,â Elsewhere, the Iroquois successfully fought most of their indigenous rivals. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, French settlers finally managed to take hold of a wild and wealthy land and turn it into an influential colonial outpost. How amusing that Renardette's kidnapping actually got stopped by the small end of Trepagny's walking stick as he was happily wandering home. But it also stoked decades of rivalries, violence, and all-out war as the fur trade transformed the landscape, the economy, and indigenous groupsâ traditional ways of life.The Iroquois and other indigenous people traditionally shared their hunting grounds with members of their tribe and their allies, only hunted as much as was necessary, and respected the land and animals as part of their spiritual beliefs.
But the colonists demanded many more furs than indigenous groups usually hunted.
At first, indigenous trappersThe fur trade benefited both the French and their indigenous trading partners. As the series depicts, New France in the 1690s was all about second chances.
The colony of Canada was a French colony (modern day Quebec) within the larger territory of New France, first claimed in the name of the King of France in 1535 during the second voyage of Jacques Cartier, later to become largely part of the modern country of Canada. In 1534, Jacques Cartier began the first of three expeditions to explore the territory that would briefly be known as New France. That didn't stop Gus from attacking the inn with the hope of silencing any potential witnesses. Despite a booming population and economy during the early 1700s, New France spent most of its money on military preparations that were ill-suited to colonial realities. What's Renewed? But by claiming this territory and building settlements on it, the French colonists stoked tension and violence with those who already lived on the land.Hunting territory wasnât the only thing at stake for the Iroquois. The land became home to fur traders, state-sponsored brides, soldiersâand the indigenous people who had been there for thousands of years.The intertwined lives of the people of 1690s New France are depicted in the upcoming National Geographic limited series What was New France really like? New France ended with Franceâs defeat in the Seven Yearsâ War, and its holdings were handed over to the British in the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The story of New France: the cradle of modern CanadaThe story of New France: the cradle of modern Canada In 1667, New France and the Iroquois League signed a peaceBut permanent peace wouldnât come until the turn of the century.
And will Trepagny be right after Duquet?
This loon appeared to think he's on a divine mission to tame the New France wilderness all by himself and set up his kingdom there. As the show opens, the idealist among the new settlers arriving at Wobik Settlement was Rene Sel.
Jacques Cartier's travels in New France.