The Ideal Setting In Champagne

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Many people have long chosen to settle in Montréal because of its ideal location. Montréal has Mount Royal and its vast forests, the St. Lawrence River and the Lachine Rapids, which required navigators to stop and unload their boats. In Montréal’s earliest years there was a village called Hochelaga that in 1535 French explorer Jacques Cartier discovered. Then in 1642 a mission colony was established called Montrealistes that was having a hard time but in the end prevailed and the colony gradually took hold. Around 1630, the Catholic elite in France was influenced by a religious revival and discovered the Canadian missions through the Jesuit chronicles, Les relations. They were looking to establish a mission colony composed of Amerindian converts and French settlers. The Island of Montréal entrusted its settlement to…show more content…
Partnerships were formed between outfitters and voyageurs. Outfitters furnished equipment and imported French goods, while voyageurs travelled upriver to the pays d’en haut. The voyageurs then traded their goods for beaver pelts, which they brought back to Montréal. The voyageurs were forced to travel further because of how fast they depleted their resources. First they traveled to the Great Lakes region, then to the Mississippi Valley and finally to what would later become the Canadian Prairies. Trading posts were then established to ensure France’s control of the region. Competition from English merchants came from the colony of New York to the South, and mainly from the Hudson’s Bay Company in the North. Within the French colony there were many competitors they had to compete with, but they also had to compete with colonial administrators in Québec City who secretly participated in the trade. Montréal’s involvement in the fur trade did not result in extensive growth for the city, the fur trade nonetheless employed a third of the labour force and local youth who were starting their

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