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Canada was a French colony within the larger territory of New France. It was claimed by France in 1535 during the second voyage of Jacques Cartier, in the name of the French king, Francis I. The colony remained a French territory until 1763, when it became a British colony known as the Province of Quebec. [5] [6] [7] [8]
The Amerindians had lived in the area for a long time. The Monongahelas, for example, had been living in the valley since the 11th century, but generally they had no direct contact with Europeans. [1] The French relied on the Amerindians to guide them into the American territories.
The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France .
The vast territory included most of the Great Lakes region, expanding west and south over time into the North American continent as the French had explored. The Pays d'en Haut was established in 1610 and depended on the colony of Canada until 1763, when the Treaty of Paris ended New France, and both were ceded to the British as the Province of ...
Samuel de Champlain overseeing the construction of the Habitation de Québec, in 1608. New France had five colonies or territories, each with its own administration: Canada (the Great Lakes region, the Ohio Valley, and the St. Lawrence River Valley), Acadia (the Gaspé Peninsula, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, St. John's Island, and Île Royale-Cape Breton), Hudson Bay (and James Bay), Terre ...
A map of the original Ohio Country. In the 17th century, the French were the first modern Europeans to explore what became known as Ohio Country. [13] In 1663, it became part of New France, a royal province of French Empire, and northeastern Ohio was further explored by Robert La Salle in 1669. [14]
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (/ l ə ˈ s æ l /; November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687), was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and the Mississippi River.
Paleo-Indian cultures were the earliest in North America, with a presence in the Great Plains and Great Lakes areas from about 12,000 BCE to around 8,000 BCE. [citation needed] Prior to European settlement, Iroquoian people lived around Lakes Erie and Ontario, [2] Algonquian peoples around most of the rest, and a variety of other indigenous nation-peoples including the Menominee, Ojibwa ...