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New France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2353 words) |
 | New France (French: la Nouvelle-France) describes the area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River, by Jacques Cartier in 1534, to the cession of New France to the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1763. |
| The government of the colony was reformed along the lines of the government of France, with the Governor General and Intendant subordinate to the Minister of the Marine in France. |
| The 1666 census of New France was conducted by France's intendant, Jean Talon, in the winter of 1665-1666. |
| A Century of New France: 1663-1763 - Canadian Heritage (10862 words) |
| New France yet spread out along the St. Lawrence to the Great Lakes and the northwest beyond; and was linked as well with the new wilderness French realm to be known as Louisiana, that fronted south on the Gulf of Mexico but reached up the Mississippi and Ohio to the Great Lakes country. |
| New Englanders were outraged; and not at all impressed by the return of Madras to Britain in exchange, a key fortified base in southern India. |
| The new governor of Nova Scotia, Colonel Charles Lawrence, was central to this drastic decision. |
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