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In 1663, upon the dissolution of the Company of One Hundred Associates, New France came under direct rule by the French crown. The Custom was officially introduced in New France by Article 33 of the royal charter establishing the French West India Company in May 1664. The company retained control of the colony for a decade thereafter.
The British military regime in New France was the British army's military occupation of New France from 1760 to 1763 as part of its Conquest of New France. Between 1760, following the surrender of Montreal , and 1763, when the colonial province of Quebec was created, a temporary military regime administered the colony of Canada .
At the outset, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 defined the jurisdictional limits of the British territories of North America, limiting British colonial expansion on the continent. What remained of the Royal Province of New France east of the Great Lakes and the Ottawa River, and south of Rupert's Land, was
Mostly, French settlers from those ceded lands relocated to the maritime islands that were established as France-owned. The territory of modern New Brunswick was a source of contention between Great Britain and France for 50 additional years, which was only to be resolved by the Treaty of Paris in 1763 with the abject surrender of the French.
The Conquest of New France (French: La Conquête) – the military conquest of New France by Great Britain during the Seven Years' War of 1756 to 1763 – started with a British campaign in 1758 and ended with the region being put under a British military regime between 1760 and 1763.
In 1663, however, Louis XIV asked the Company of One Hundred Associates to relinquish its charter, and declared New France a royal province under his direct rule. [6] The decision to make New France a royal province was as much, if not more, motivated by mercantile ambitions than pleas for help.
The French colonial empire in the Americas comprised New France (including Canada and Louisiana), French West Indies (including Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, Tobago and other islands) and French Guiana. Pictured above is New France. French North America was known as 'Nouvelle France' or New France.
Louisiana [b] or French Louisiana [c] was an administrative district of New France.In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle erected a cross near the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed the whole of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River in the name of King Louis XIV, naming it "Louisiana".