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Michigan
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Saint Pierre and Miquelon
self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France
New France
area colonized by France in North America
Peace of Utrecht
series of peace treaties ending the War of the Spanish Succession
French and Indian War
North American theatre of the worldwide Seven Years' War
Treaty of Paris (1763)
treaty ending the Seven Years' War
Corning
city in Adams County, Iowa, United States
Queen Anne's War
North American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession
French Canada
French colony in New France between 1534 and 1763
Prairie du Rocher
human settlement in Randolph County, Illinois, United States of America
Tadoussac
Tadoussac () is a village municipality in La Haute-Côte-Nord RCM (Regional County Municipality), on the north shore of the maritime section of the estuary of St. Lawrence river, in Côte-Nord region, Quebec, Canada.
King George's War
North American theater of the War of the Austrian Succession
Mississippi Company
monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies
Treaty of San Ildefonso
treaty between France and Spain involving the colonial territory of Louisiana
Louisiana
province of New Spain
Acadians
The Acadians (, , ) are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, most descendants of Acadians live in either the Northern American region of Acadia, where descendants of Acadians who escaped the Expulsion of the Acadians (known as The Great Upheaval, ) re-settled, or in Louisiana, where thousands of Acadians moved in the late 1700s. Descendants of the Louisiana Acadians are most commonly known as Cajuns, the anglicized term of "Acadian".
King's Daughters
French women emigrants to North America 1663 to 1673, recruited by Louis XIV
Father Rale's War
war
Kaskaskia
thumb|Illinois Indian of the Kaskaskia Tribe, engraving based on drawing by General Georges-Henri-Victor Collot, 1796 The Kaskaskia (Miami–Illinois: Kaaskaaskia) were a historical Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. They were one of about a dozen cognate tribes that made up the Illiniwek Confederation, also called the Illinois Confederation. Their longstanding homeland was in the Great Lakes region. Their first contact with Europeans reportedly occurred near present-day Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1667 at a Jesuit mission station.
Coureur des bois
French-Canadian independent fur traders
French colonization of Texas
colonization from 1685
North American fur trade
activities related to the acquisition, trade, and sale of animal furs in North America
Company of One Hundred Associates
1600s French fur-trading company in Canada
Hochelaga
archaeological site
Le Griffon
Sailing vessel used in the exploration of the North American Great Lakes
Raid on Deerfield
1704 raid
Siege of Port Royal
military siege by British regular and provincial forces against a French Acadian garrison and the Wabanaki Confederacy at the Acadian capital, Port Royal
Donnacona
Chief Donnacona (died 1539 in France) was the chief of the St. Lawrence Iroquois village of Stadacona, located at the present site of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. French explorer Jacques Cartier, concluding his second voyage to what is now Canada, kidnapped Donnacona along with nine other Iroquois captives, and brought them to France, where Donnacona died. Later Cartier would make a third voyage to the same area.
Battle of Hudson's Bay
naval battle in 1697
Chateau St. Louis
building in Quebec, Canada
Fort Carillon
colonial French fort in present-day Ticonderoga, New York, United States
French Florida
French Huguenot colony (1562–1565)
Fort Chambly
building in Quebec, Canada
Siege of Louisbourg
1745 siege
Huron Carol
song
Pays d'en Haut
Territory of New France
Battle of St. John's
part of a French expedition against English settlements in 1709
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Compagnies Franches de la Marine
military unit
Newfoundland Expedition
1702 English naval raiding expedition
Jesuit missions in North America
Raid on Haverhill
part of Queen Anne's War
Siege of St. John's
1705 French siege during Queen Anne's War
Chemin du Roy
historic route in New France, now Quebec, Canada
French Shore
Historical fishing area
1666 census of New France
Census in Canada
Governor of New France
Saint-Sulpice Seminary
building in Montreal, Canada
Etienne-Michel Faillon
French historian (1799-1870)
French Colonial
style of artistic architectural production in French colonies featuring a combination of French and native characteristics
Jean-Baptiste Louis Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld de Roye
French galley general (1707-1746)
Habitants
thumb|250px|Habitants, by Cornelius Krieghoff (1852) thumb|upright|A habitant in winter dress, by Frances Anne Hopkins (1858)
Île-Royale
thumb|upright=1.35|Louisbourg on Ïle Royale in 1750
Articles of Capitulation of Montreal
negotiated terms of surrender of the colony of New France to Great Britain
post in ground
type of construction in which vertical, roof-bearing timbers, called posts, are in direct contact with the ground. They may be placed into excavated post holes, driven into the ground, or on sills which are set on the ground without a foundation
Hudson Bay expedition
in which Fort Albany and other company outposts were captured by the French