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The New France (1534 - 1763)</font></div>
The New France, circa 1750 New France is the name that France gave to its colonies in North America. The history of New France began with the first attempts at French colonization following the first trip of Jacques Cartier in 1534. The Ancien Regime France gradually occupied from 1604 to 1760 what was previously a native american land. Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City on July 3, 1608. It was the first city founded by Europeans on North American soil and it was the capital of New France for over a century and a half. This vast territory spanned three distinct regions: Acadia, now called Atlantic Canada, Canada, then comprising only St. Lawrence valley, and Louisiana, which included the Illinois Country, comprising the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys down to the Gulf of Mexico. New France had a low population growth compared to the British American colonies adjacent to its eastern borders. Around 1730, the gap was considerable: the British colonies had about 250,000 people of European origin while there were only 30,000 people in New France. This, in addition to its geographical position avoiding any expansion of British Land, triggered confrontations. Those became more frequent until the fall of Quebec on September 13, 1759. Its capital captured, New France fell.</font> New France ceased to exist in 1763 when France gave Canada and its dependencies to Great Britain by signing the Treaty of Paris. Today, all that remains of this once vast wilderness empire are the little islands of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, located off Newfoundland, Canada. Le Cardinal de Richelieu 30px Cardinal Richelieu - Quote from Maximes.</center></br> </div> [{{fullurl:Portal:New France/Selected article/Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[".|action=edit}} edit]
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