In 1604, a French explorer, Champlain, whose mission is exploring the land called New France, arrived in Canada, he designed to build his residence in Quebec in 1608 because he thought Quebec is very suitable to trade fur. At about the same period, the British were settling their colonies in the thirteen colonies. In 1670, the English started involving in fur trade in Upper Canada and established the Hudson’s Bay Company but in 1682, the French attacked the Hudson’s Bay Company and took control of it until 1714. In the Treaty of Utrecht, the British took over of Acadia and Acadians were asked to take oath of allegiance to English king but they refused to sign the unconditional oath of allegiance to the English king. By 1755, the British decided …show more content…
On the one hand, the England and British parliament allowed their colonists to set up representative assemblies and local government for themselves, and to tax themselves, as long as they followed the law of England and loyal to the English king. Besides, England not only sent enough military forces to the colonies and trained the colonists to be new militaries but also welcome the forces from other nations are in order to defend the British colonists. Because of British’s navy was the most powerful navy in the world, in 1756, England decided to send their colonies a lot of ships with naval warfare for helping their colonists to attack the French, at the meanwhile, Prime Minister of Britain started to concentrate British forces on defeating France in North America. Thus, Louisbourg fell to British forces and Quebec was taken by British. On the other hand, the French colonies were completely subject to the French king. There were no any political rights or representative assemblies and government. Also, public meetings even could not be held without permission so the French colonies didn’t have freedom and were not able to govern themselves. What’s more, France neither wanted to spend too much money on their colonies nor gave any supports of their colonists in North America and France’s attention was concentrating on winning the war in Europe. Therefore, it was some of reasons that French colonists lost the seven …show more content…
A variety of economic activities such as fishing, farming and trading, and exports consist of rice, fish, tobacco and timber. Whereas, Tobacco was the main source for British colonists in North America to get revenue. Also, the British was very strong in building the ships and the British governments provided a lot of ships to their colonists to help them promote the economy by trading with aboriginal peoples and Europe. Unlike England, the French government encouraged their colonists to farm but plantations establishments were largely failed so they had to keep doing the fur trade and fishing. Eventually, the French struggled for control of the lucrative fur trade. In terms of religion, most British colonists were non-Catholics and they desire for freedom of religion so they have more tolerance to accept other religions and culture, except the Puritans in Massachusetts. In addition, after the British conquered Quebec, they still allowed the French Canadian remain their language, culture and religion. However, most French colonists or Acadians are Catholic. Although some Protestants had played a role in founding of the New France, from about 1659 on they were excluded from the colonies, the life of French colonists were mainly controlled by the French Catholic clergy who couldn’t tolerate other religion, therefore, when the French was settling Quebec initially, they tried to convert the aboriginal peoples