Polity · 1598 CE – 1791 CE
New France
Vice-royauté de Nouvelle-France · Nouvelle-France
- Peak recorded area
- 248,368 km²
- 1757 CE
- Rulers on record
- 31
- from 1598 CE
- Data series
- 5
- 1750 CE–1750 CE
Overview
New France was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris.
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Territory
43 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
The record
The best-attested series in each category; where several projects publish the same quantity, the one with the most observations is shown. Each row is the most recent value the record holds at or before 1791 CE, shown with the year that value belongs to. Some statistical series also publish forward projections — the year column is the honest guide. Nothing on this page is interpolated or estimated by us.
Economy
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Subsistence Agriculture | 4ordinal1750 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Fishing | 2ordinal1750 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Gathering | 2ordinal1750 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Hunting | 2ordinal1750 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Husbandry | 0ordinal1750 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Rulers
31 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- Troilus de MesqouezGovernor of New France1598 CE – 1606 CE
- Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-JustGovernor of New France1606 CE – 1614 CE
- Émery de CaenGovernor of New France1624 CE – 1626 CE
- Samuel de ChamplainGovernor of New France1626 CE – 1629 CE
- Lewis KirkeGovernor of New France1629 CE – 1632 CE
- Marc-Antoine Bras-De-Fer de ChateaufortGovernor of New France1635 CE – 1636 CE
- Charles de MontmagnyGovernor of New France1636 CE – 1648 CE
- Louis d'Ailleboust de CoulongeGovernor of New France1648 CE – 1651 CE
- Jean de LausonGovernor of New France1651 CE – 1656 CE
- Charles de Lauzon de CharneyGovernor of New France1656 CE – 1657 CE
- Pierre de Voyer d'Argenson, Vicomte de MouzayGovernor of New France1658 CE – 1661 CE
- Pierre Dubois DavaugourGovernor of New France1661 CE – 1663 CE
- Augustin de Saffray de MésyGovernor of New France1663 CE – 1665 CE
- François de LavalGovernor of New France1663 CE
- Alexandre de ProuvilleGovernor of New France1665 CE
- Jacques Leneuf de La PoterieGovernor of New France1665 CE
- Joseph-Antoine de La BarreGovernor of New France1682 CE – 1685 CE
- Jacques de MeullesGovernor of New France1685 CE
- Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville, Marquis de DenonvilleGovernor of New France1685 CE – 1689 CE
- Louis-Hector de CallièreGovernor of New France1698 CE – 1703 CE
- Louis-Hector de CallièresGovernor of New France1698 CE – 1703 CE
- Philippe de Rigaud VaudreuilGovernor of New France1703 CE – 1714 CE
- Claude de RamezayGovernor of New France1714 CE – 1716 CE
- Charles le Moyne de Longueuil, Baron de LongueuilGovernor of New France1725 CE – 1726 CE
- Charles de la Boische, Marquis de BeauharnoisGovernor of New France1726 CE – 1747 CE
- Roland-Michel Barrin de La GalissonièreGovernor of New France1747 CE – 1749 CE
- Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquière, Marquis de La JonquièreGovernor of New France1749 CE – 1752 CE
- Charles III Le MoyneGovernor of New France1752 CE
- Michel-Ange Duquesne de MennevilleGovernor of New France1752 CE – 1755 CE
- Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-CavagnalGovernor of New France1755 CE – 1760 CE
- Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron AmherstGovernor of New France1760 CE – 1763 CE
Language & currency
- Official & national languages
- French
- Currency
- New France livre, French livre
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)Ethnographic Atlas (D-PLACE 2.3)
Kirby, K.R. et al. (2016). D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE 11(7).
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Wikipedia contributors. Article lead sections, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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New France is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.