New France-Role of Religious Figures

In the life of New France, the role of religious figures was to spread the Roman Catholic faith in New France. Both the Jesuits and the Ursulines went to New France to do this. The Jesuits built a school for boys and the Ursulines built a school for girls. In the effort to convert the First Nations to the Roman Cathoilc faith, both French and First Nations children were included in these schools. The religious figures built missionaries such as Sainte Marie Among the Hurons. These missionaries contained a church and some homes to care for poor or sick people. Although the French tried to assimilate the First Nations people, they were not very focused on it and soon accepted their differences.

-Suzanne