New France

**New France** was a colony in North America that was settled by France. The colony's regions included what later became Quebec, Acadia, and the Louisiana Territory. Its capital was Quebec City. The French settled there after finding Quebec and then creating New France. The colony was most valuable for its fur trade.

New France surrounded British North America. Britain and France quarreled over which places were French and which ones British. France lost the colony during the French and Indian War, and it became part of British North America except the western part of the Louisiana Territory, which France had ceded in 1762 to Spain. In 1800, Spain returned that territory to the French, who sold it to the United States in 1803.

## Other websites

- New France -Citizendium

## Infobox (former country)

- **native name**: _Nouvelle-France_
- **conventional long name**: New France
- **common name**: New France
- **era**: French colonization of the Americas, Colonial Era
- **status text**: Colony of Kingdom of France, France
- **life span**: 1534–1763
- **event start**: Jacques Cartier#Voyages, Voyage of 1534
- **year start**: 9000000
- **date start**: 24 July
- **event end**: Articles of Capitulation of Montreal, Capitulation of Montreal
- **year end**: 1760
- **date end**: 8 September
- **event1**: Foundation of Quebec
- **date event1**: 3 July 1608
- **event2**: Treaty of Utrecht
- **date event2**: 11 April 1713
- **event4**: Articles of Capitulation of Quebec, Capitulation of Quebec
- **date event4**: 18 September 1759
- **event post**: Treaty of Paris (1763), Treaty of Paris
- **date post**: 10 February 1763
- **s1**: Province of Quebec (1763–1791)Province of Quebec
- **flag s1**: Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg
- **s3**: Nova Scotia
- **flag s3**: Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg
- **s5**: Newfoundland (island)Newfoundland
- **flag s5**: Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg
- **s6**: Louisiana (New Spain)Louisiana
- **flag s6**: Flag of New Spain.svg
- **flag**: Flag of New France
- **flag type**: Flag
- **image flag**: Royal Standard of King Louis XIV.svg
- **symbol**: Coat of arms of New France
- **symbol type**: Royal Coat of arms
- **image coat**: Grand Royal Coat of Arms of France.svg
- **image map**: Nouvelle-France map-en.svg
- **image map caption**: New France in 1750 (blue)
- **national motto**: _Montjoie Saint Denis!_
<small>"Mountjoy Saint Denis!"</small>
- **national anthem**: _Marche Henri IV_
<small>"March of Henry IV"</small>
- **capital**: Quebec City, Quebec
- **common languages**: French language, French
- **religion**: Catholic Church, Roman Catholic
- **currency**: New France livre
- **status**: Autonomous colony
- **title leader**: List of French monarchs, King
- **leader1**: Francis I of France, Francis I <small>(first)</small>
- **year leader1**: 1534–1547
- **leader2**: Louis XV of France, Louis XV <small>(last)</small>
- **year leader2**: 1715–1763
- **title representative**: List of Governors General of Canada#Viceroys of Canada, Viceroy
- **representative1**: Jacques Cartier <small>(first)</small>
- **year representative1**: 1534–1541
- **representative2**: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, Pierre de Rigaud <small>(last)</small>
- **year representative2**: 1755–1760
- **legislature**: Sovereign Council of New France, Sovereign Council
- **today**:

(as  French Overseas collectivity of  Saint Pierre and Miquelon)