In the Far East, the French Empire consisted in The French also held Cheik Said's Territory on the Yemenite Territories are included today in the modern states of (Lattaquié), Alep, Hatay (Alexandretta), Lebanon, In the Near East, the territories under trusteeship of the In South America, the French Crown possessed one of the Grenada has also been French for some time. Saint Bartholomew, Saint Martin, les Saintes and a few other rocks. The largest territory was Saint-Domingue (today'sĭésirade, Dominica, La Frégate, Marie-Galante, In the Carribean, the French Crown possessed various In North America left today under French sovereignty. Saint-Pierre and Miquelon is the only territory Madeleine (Magdelena Islands), which today belong to Quebec. Terre-Neuve ( Newfoundland) was also French for a while, and included Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and the Îles-de-la. At the periphery, there were also settlements in Vincennes, Indiana Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and in Minnesota. Louis, Missouri, which the French founded, and other nearby villages such as Sainte Geneviève, Missouri Kaskaskia, Illinois Cape Girardeau, Missouri Cahokia, Illinois, Prairie du Rocher, Illinois. Illinois, centered around the current city of St. Today southern Louisiana and an area known as Le pays des Territory however, the French only colonized two areas: what is The rest was bought from France by the USA in 1803 afterīeing under Spanish control for several decades. Lose the oriental half (east of the Mississippi, except for New The Mississippi valley from the Rocky Mountains to the top of theĪppalachians as part of their Louisiana possession. Gave up Acadia to the English, it changed hands six times between Note also that until the French definitely Modern-day Acadians are descendents from Frenchmen who settled Original colony settled on Sainte-Croix island (today in Maine, USA) inġ603, moved in 1604 to Port-Royal (today Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia) and finally the settlers moved again to found Quebec City in 1608. Modern New Brunswick in colonial French Canada. Until 1763, which explains why French maps tend to include what is Reality, most of it was a contested area between France and England To consider most of modern New Brunswick part of Nova Scotia. After the British conquest of the area, British maps tended
Saint-Jean (today's Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island, respectively) are usually considered part of the French colony ofĪcadia. Sometimes had their own governors, Isle Royale and Isle With adjacent areas in today's southern New Brunswick. Term refered to the peninsular part of modern Nova Scotia, often Permanent settlement ( Quebec City) in 1608.Īcadie (Acadia, 1603-1713).In its narrowest sense, the Trading post (Tadoussac) was only established in 1600, and the first Note that though "discovered" in 1534, the first Some oldįrench maps also consider today's New Brunswick as part of Canada (today's southern Ontario and adjacent parts of the USA). Michilimackinac, Canada came to include the Great Lakes area as well Settlement progressed westward in places like Detroit and Valley of the Saint Lawrence river (today's southern Quebec). Includes settlement attempts in Florida).Ĭanada (1534-1763). (used by Marc Lescarbot in 1609 in his Histoire de la Nouvelle-įrance), the term refers to all the French possessions in theĪmericas ( French Guiana and Caribbeans included Lescarbot even Refers to the three main North American colonies: Canada, Acadia and In its narrowest sense, this term refers only to History of the French Colonial Empire French colonies in the Americas Keywords: french colonies | governor | governor-general | french community of states | This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website France: Colonial Empire
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