1. Building a New Identity in New France

2. Where do you come from?
My ancestors came from Germany, Denmark, Ireland, and Scotland
Yet over the years my family developed a Canadian identity

3. Creating a New Identity
The First immigrants to New France were all French citizens. They brought their culture, language, and beliefs
Over the years and generations, a new people began to emerge

4. Creating a New Identity
The people of New France were always loyal to France
kept customs and traditions
Yet they developed an attitude of independence
Representatives in France began to think the colonists had forgotten their place and purpose

5. The Ursuline Nuns Some of the first female immigrants to New France
Came to help convert First Nations people

6. Marie de L’Incarnation
An Ursuline Nun who established the Ursuline Convent at Quebec
Ran a school teaching girls reading, writing, needlework, and domestic arts
The first school for girls in NA

7. Limited Rights for Women
Women were the property of her father until marriage when she became property of her husband
Required her husbands permission to
Carry on business
Sell her property
They did and could not:
Vote
Run for office
Divorce husbands

8. What’s Love Got To Do With It- NOTHING!
A good marriage was not about love it was about status and economics
Husbands formed alliances through marriage
A wife’s status was dependent on her husbands success

9. Marry Up and Down
Among upper classes, a marital match had to be equal or better
Marry up is to marry above your social class or marry down is to marry beneath you
A man could marry down, but a woman could only marry up because she took on the status of her husband

10. Roles and Duties of Women
Caring for children
Partners in running a farm
sewing, preserving, baking, husbandry skills
Worked alongside husbands in business
- Purchased supplies, sold goods, kept the books, ran the business when husband gone