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The explorer, Jacques Cartier, lead the exploration through Exploration of the Saint Lawrence River in Canada.
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Henry IV, Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons and Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Quebec with 28 men, the second permanent French settlement in the colony of Canada.Colonization was slow and difficult. Many settlers died early, because of harsh weather and diseases.
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The Company of One Hundred Associates invested in New France, promising land parcels to hundreds of new settlers and to turn Canada into an important mercantile and farming colony.
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English colonies to the south began to raid the St. Lawrence valley. In 1629, Quebec itself was captured and held by the British until 1632.
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In 1630, there were only 103 colonists living in the settlement. .
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Champlain returned to Canada that year. He requested that Sieur de Laviolette found another trading post at Trois-Rivières, which he did in 1634.
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Champlain died in 1635.
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By 1640, the population had reached 355.
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Montreal still had only a few dozen settlers and a severely underpopulated New France almost fell completely to hostile Iroquois forces.
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In 1660, settler Adam Dollard des Ormeaux led a Canadian and Huron militia against a much larger Iroquois force. No Canadians survived, but they succeeded in turning back the Iroquois invasion.
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The territory of New France extended from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. The territory was divided in five colonies, (with its own administration): Canada, Acadia, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland (Plaisance) and Louisiana.
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After Seven Years of War, Britian recieved all lands east of Louisianna including Canada, Acadia, and parts of Louisiana, Spain received the territory to the west – the larger portion of Louisiana.
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France sold land to the USA in through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, permanently ending French colonial efforts on the North American mainland.
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