HISTORY

The Farmer

- Farming was important in New France.

- Seigneurs were men given land by the King. These men were usually former soldiers or others who had won the King's favour.
- habitants worked the land for the seigneurs. They had to give a portion of the  crops as payment. They also had to help harvest the seigneur's private fields. They had to donate their labour to the building and upkeep if the church. They could grow their own crops.

Seigneurie - land given to a seigneur and worked by a habitant.

Filles de roi were young single women who were encouraged to leave France and travel to New France to marry the single French settlers so that the population of the colony would increase.