{"id":412,"date":"2011-04-07T20:22:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T20:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/nouvelle-france\/"},"modified":"2012-06-11T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T14:46:57","slug":"immigration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/population\/immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The development of an overseas colony, above all, requires an initiative to populate it. This is, indeed, one of the decisive factors in a colony\u2019s survival. But who were these men and women who decided to come to America to start a new life, or who were sent with no choice in the matter? In other words, who were the ancestors of Quebecers and, in general, of all the Francophone peoples living in North America today?<\/p>\n

Women of ill repute being shipped from Paris to Louisiana, 1726<\/strong>
Estampes et photographie, RESERVE QB-201 (111)-FOL < p.50 >, Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France.<\/div>\">\"Women<\/a>

Women of ill repute being shipped from Paris to Louisiana, 1726<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

This is not only a matter of interest to genealogists; historians and sociologists also seek to determine the roots of the people of New France. Knowing who the colonists were and where they came from provides a better understanding of the development of this civilization and this new culture, which have survived to the present day.<\/p>\n

When talking about the settlement of New France, we often evoke the filles du roi, or the \u201cking\u2019s daughters,\u201d the young women sent by Louis XIV and his Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert to marry bachelors already settled in the colony. However, many other people left their country for New France. In the following article, Leslie Choquette reveals everything about the colonists. Who were they? Where did they come from? How many were there? How old were they? What were their trades? Why did they decide to leave everything behind and face the dangers of an Atlantic crossing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The development of an overseas colony, above all, requires an initiative to populate it. This is, indeed, one of the decisive factors in a colony\u2019s survival. But who were these men and women who decided to come to America to start a new life, or who were sent with no choice in the matter? In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":307,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412\/revisions\/3372"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}