History of Canada (2)
by Cindy Kwon | Uncategorized | September 7th, 2007
New France (Nouvelle-France) 1604-1763
After Champlain’s founding of Quebec City in 1608 it became the capital of New France. The coastal communities were based upon the cod fishery, the economy along the St Lawrence River was based on farming.
French voyageurs traveled deep into the hinterlands (of what is today Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba) trading guns, gunpowder, […]