{"id":321,"date":"2011-04-05T20:13:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T20:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/nouvelle-france\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T15:37:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T19:37:47","slug":"heritage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"

New France disappeared in 1763, but its legacy persists to this day.\u00a0 The transfer to Great Britain and Spain of the territory occupied and claimed by France brought about a major political transition.\u00a0 The transatlantic networks which until them had animated the French colonies were reconfigured in fundamental ways.\u00a0\u00a0 The French colonial population nevertheless remained firmly rooted.\u00a0 It did not overnight lose its religion, its customs, or its language.\u00a0 Colonial institutions were restructured, but many of them retained for many years to come the character they had acquired under the French Regime.<\/p>\n

Reenactment at Fort Niagara<\/strong>
The twenty-first century meets the eighteenth : in the foreground, reenactors of the Compagnie des canonniers-bombardiers de Qu\u00e9bec take part in the animation of the 250<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the fall of Fort Niagara in 2009. A crowd of tourists look on from atop the remparts.
Compagnie des canonniers-bombardiers de Qu\u00e9bec.<\/div>\">\"Reenactment<\/a>

Reenactment at Fort Niagara<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

The heritage of New France is omnipresent today.\u00a0 The populations born of seventeenth and eighteenth century migrants continue to blossom, not only in Quebec, but through Canada and certain regions of the United States.\u00a0 With a little genealogical research, the gap between that era and our own is easily narrowed.\u00a0 The heritage of New France also shows through the particularities of the French language as it is still spoken in North America.\u00a0 French and Aboriginal place names, fixed by explorers and pioneers, etch traces of this\u00a0founding epoch\u00a0across the continent.<\/p>\n

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, New France has also been commemorated in more explicit ways.\u00a0 From the tercentennial of the foundation of the city of Quebec, in 1908, to the two hundredth and fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, in 2010, solemn ceremonies and historical reenactments have abounded.\u00a0 Monuments to founding figures and events have proliferated.\u00a0 Many historical sites have been reconstructed and animated through the efforts of governments and devoted lovers of history.\u00a0 New France, as it turns out, has not entirely disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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