An American history . w-rence. They massacred the Frenchmissionaries and exterminated the tribesthat listened to their preaching. Theirenmity forced the French explorers andtraders to seek the interior of America by the northern shoresof the Great Lakes; and the terror which their name spreadwestward even to the Mississippi kept the Ohio valley from everbeing a safe highway of commerce between the French posses-sions in Canada and in Louisiana (the Mississippi Valley). Had the French controlled the Ohio valley and the southernshores of Lakes Erie and Ontario, as they would undoubtedlyhave done
An American history . w-rence. They massacred the Frenchmissionaries and exterminated the tribesthat listened to their preaching. Theirenmity forced the French explorers andtraders to seek the interior of America by the northern shoresof the Great Lakes; and the terror which their name spreadwestward even to the Mississippi kept the Ohio valley from everbeing a safe highway of commerce between the French posses-sions in Canada and in Louisiana (the Mississippi Valley). Had the French controlled the Ohio valley and the southernshores of Lakes Erie and Ontario, as they would undoubtedlyhave done with the Iroquois as allies, it is extremely likely thatthey would have succeeded in their long struggle to confinethe English within the narrow strip of land between the Alle-gheny Mountains and the Atlantic. Then the vast continent ofAmerica above the Gulf of Mexico would have developed underFrench instead of English institutions. What the French ideasof colonization were we see in the regulations made by Richelieu. Champlain TercentenaryMedal The Struggle with France for North America 85 in 1627 to 1628 for the Hundred Associates of New France, andby the ministers of Louis XIV, when the colony became a prov-ince of the crown in 1663. None but Frenchmen and RomanCatholics were allowed in the colony. The land was all in thehands of great proprietors, who rented strips for cultivationalong the river banks, in exchange for labor on their big estatesor payment in produce. The government was administered bythe officers of the company or the crown, without the directionor even the advice of any representative assembly. There wasno local government. Justice was dispensed by the magistrateswithout trial by jury. The self-rule which was practically enjoyed by every English 101. Thecolony on the Atlantic seaboard was unknown in Canada. In nae*™f^theits place there prevailed the system known as paternalism, ^ench inwhich treated the inhabitants of the colony like irresponsiblechildre
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