Mercantilism and Triangle Trade
By the late 1600s, competition for control of North America
between England and France intensified and pressure to settle
Quebec increased. Responsibility for colonizing Quebec, now
known as “New France”, fell to the Company of One Hundred
Associates but as a fur trading business it had little interest
in bringing settlers to the colony. As such, in 1663, King Louis
XIV (the Sun King) officially declared New France a royal
province and quickly established a colonial government directly
controlled by him.
