{"id":432,"date":"2011-04-07T20:32:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/nouvelle-france\/"},"modified":"2012-06-01T15:09:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T19:09:46","slug":"vernacular-architecture-in-new-france","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/daily-life\/vernacular-architecture-in-new-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernacular Architecture in New France"},"content":{"rendered":"

When settlers arrived in New France, one of their primary concerns was putting a roof over their heads. They had to take the climate, the available materials and their financial resources into account to determine what type of dwelling they would build. Then, depending on the tools they had brought with them, their experience and their ingenuity, they built a home that would provide maximum comfort and security.<\/p>\n

Interior of a Canadian house<\/strong>
Horatio Walker, Int\u00e9rieur de maison (Inside of House), 1886, Watercolor on paper, 14 x 23 cm, Collection: Mus\u00e9e national des beaux-arts du Qu\u00e9bec, 1934.539, Photo : MNBAQ, Jean-Guy K\u00e9rouac.<\/div>\">\"Interior<\/a>

Interior of a Canadian house<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

In this article, we present the various aspects of domestic dwellings of the New France era. Drawing on archaeological research conducted recently in North America, as well as on archival material, the author describes the types of buildings built in the St. Lawrence Valley, Acadia and Louisiana. Colonial<\/em> is often the only adjective used to describe the houses in New France, but, in fact, their characteristics varied, depending on the period, the social class and where they were built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When settlers arrived in New France, one of their primary concerns was putting a roof over their heads. They had to take the climate, the available materials and their financial resources into account to determine what type of dwelling they would build. Then, depending on the tools they had brought with them, their experience and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":312,"menu_order":10,"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\/432"}],"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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/432\/revisions\/3359"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}