French Immigration in Canada with special view to the 17th century

Table of contents


1. Introduction

2. French immigration in the 17th century

3. Immigrant statistics

3.1. Number of immigrants

3.2. Origin of immigrants

4. The turning point in 1760

5. French immigration to British-Canada

6. Francophones in the Canadian society

7. Outlook: The future of Quebec

8. List of references



1. Introduction
“Je me souviens“. Exactly this will be done over the following pages. This paper will deal
with the French immigration to Canada and especially emphasize on the early phase, the immigration to Nouvelle France in the 17th century.
Problematic about the French immigration is the time span. If one thinks of 1534 as the starting year of French engagement in North America (cf. Kempf 1997: 7), the year in which Jaques Cartier set out on his first journey to that region which is now Canada by order of the king of France (cf. Sautter 19...