THE FRENCH COLONIZATION

 

 

 

The reasons why the French government colonized Canada were the beavers leather. The French government thought to create a empire in the new world. They decided to work at the leather commerce and colonized Canada at the beginning of the XVIIth of the century the French explorer Samuel that founded Quebec's city.

 

 

North America was important for their commercial system and their economic development.
The French government created the company of the hundred associates to found a powerful core of the French civilization in the new world.Canada became a province of France. When French people started the leather trade, Britannic government took part. They also created the Bay Hudson Company, for share those business.

 

During some time, they lived in peace until the "War of the Seven Years" began. The war finished with the French defeat and the transference of French lands to Britain

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