Sentence examples for french settlement from inspiring English sources

Lime green bayous follow historical French settlement patterns along the Gulf Coast and up Louisiana streams.

On venturing farther northward along the coast, Argall discovered a new French settlement at St . Sauveur

The original French settlement, founded in 1619, was called Nepisiguit and then St. Peters.

French settlement at Port Royal, Nova Scotia, from a map by Marc Lescarbot, 1609.

French explorers called it Île du Castor (for the castors [beavers] found there), and a French settlement (abandoned 1603) was one of the earliest in the area.

In a few areas of old French settlement (as in the Windsor area), the long, narrow fields typical of French Canadian strip farming may be seen.

A map of the British and French settlements in North America / J. Lodge, delin. et sculp.

The English conquest of India lessened the commercial activity of the French settlements.

French settlements were soon established at Fort Maurepas, Mobile, Biloxi, Fort Rosalie, and New Orleans.

Many native individuals became fur trappers, trade middlemen, or guides, while others, particularly women, focused on providing food to the French settlements.

In Quebec the loyalists simply crossed the new frontier and settled along the St. Lawrence River to the west of the old French settlements.