The chief administrator of the French colony. Worked to keep the colony in good order, and less dependent on France for meeting its basic needs.

Represented the Catholic Church - provided spiritual and moral guidance, founded schools, hospitals and orphanages.

Money a woman brings to a marriage - old custom.

"Daughters of the King."

Farmers who lived on seigneuries. In France they would have been called Paysans (peasants).

A large plot of land owned by a seigneur (landlord from a noble family). To keep the land grant, a seigneur had to recruit settlers to farm it, build a house for themselves, a flour mill and a church for the habitants.

"Runner of the Woods" - The term comes from the way some men in New France engaged in the fur trade by running into the forest to seek and trade with the First Nations. The coureurs worked independently (for themselves). Although the government would eventually make independent trading illegal, this did not stop them.

Means traveller. They were men from New France who travelled between the fur merchants of Montreal and the fur trade posts of the Great Lakes, and eventually further west.

Which religion did most settlers in New France practice?