1754 - Population

Population

A census of New France shows that the colony still has only 55,000 white inhabitants, despite 2 centuries of French government efforts to encourage colonization. Civil and religious authorities have tried to restrict settlers to farming, since fur traders pay neither seigneurial duties nor tithes, but the profits to be made in fur trading have nevertheless drawn young men to the west.

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