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History of Canada One
Chapter Eight - Social Life in New France
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Undergraduate 2
10/29/2013

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Who immigrated to New France. Greatest to least
Definition

Military or Soldiers 

Contract Labour and Petty Criminals 

Women 

Clergy

Slaves 

Captured British Subjects 

Term
Which two groups came to New France involuntarily?
Definition

Indentured Servants 

Slaves 

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What are indentured servants?
Definition
People in dept. You would indentured youself to make money or get to New France. If you indentured yourself you would be dept free but it was a harsh life
Term
Who were slaves?
Definition
African Americans and Fisrt nations, as well as white Americans (typically New England Coloniasts. They weren't immigrant but forcefully brough to New France.
Term
What are three urban areas in New France?
Definition

Quebec 

Montreal 

Louisbourg 

Term
Describe Quebec
Definition

One of the most imortant cities 

Divided into upper and lower town 

Term
What is lower town in relation to Quebec?
Definition
This was settled first but eventually became where the lowest classes were situated.
Term
What is upper town (France)
Definition
Where you fnd government, miliary, churches, seminaries.
Term
Describe Montreal
Definition
Middle Class town and is smaller than Quebec.  It is better situated in its ability to grow food, gardens, trees, etc. The people lived fairly well, it was warmer and could grow a variety of fruits and veggies.
Term
What type of people did Montreal have. ex. fur traders?
Definition

Fur Traders 

Merchants

Farmers

First Nations

 

It was an elitist 

Term
Who were the Merchants in relation to Class?
Definition
Upper Middle Class
Term
Who were the Artisans, Tradesmen, and Craftsman?
Definition
Candlestick Makers, Doctors, Butchers, etc. They were the middle, middle class
Term
Who were the Labourers and Petty Criminals?
Definition
Often Voyageurs and Indentured Servants
Term
What did the labourers and Petty Criminals do?
Definition
They would perform the very worst work in the New France. We often indentured servants and the physical demands often had crippling effects on the body (voyageurs).
Term
What Criminals were sent to New France; I.e., what was their Crime?
Definition
Ones that were in depts.
Term
Who had slaves?
Definition
Most upper and middle class people.
Term
What did Female slaves do?
Definition
The were domestic laborers
Term
What did male servants do?
Definition
They were grunt workers
Term
Who were the most common slaves in New France?
Definition
First Nations Canadians; they would capture them.
Term
Who else were sometimes slaves in New France other than First Nations?
Definition
Americans
Term
What is the social hierarchy in order:
Definition

Elite

Merchants 

Artisans and Tradsmen 

Soldiers

Peasants 

Labourers and Petty Criminals (Voyageurs and Indentured Servants) 

Slaves 

Term
What groups of people were part of the elite, where did they live?
Definition

Political, Military, Clerical, Higherst Church Officals and HIghest Military Officers 

 

Typically situated in Quebec. 

Term
Who is Lily of the Mohawks, what makes he so famous?
Definition

- Converted to Christianity and orphaned at age four

- Experienced small pox when young and had aweful vision

- She resisted marriage and wanted to stay a virgin, the jesuits encouraged this and she converted 

- Experiences a lot of dislike from her family, runs away, finds another Christian women and dies at a young age. 

- She is a Catholic Aesthetic and was canonized in 2012 as a saint. 

Term
Who is Marie - Marguerite d'youville and when did she live, what did she do?
Definition

-Founder of the Grey Nuns 

- She is known as venerable 

- 1701 to 1771 

Term
What happened to Marie-Marguerite d'youville in her life?
Definition
She was educate by the ersalines, and he uncle was lover andre. She wasn't happily married and was left an impoverished widow. She help the poor and at one point works in a hospital that is in great dept.
Term
What was Marie-Marguerite d'youvilles specialty?
Definition
To take care of people that have been sent out of places of institutions. Like foundlings, and eople that would ouste from the Montreal General Hospital.
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