Reddit mentions of The People of New France (Themes in Canadian History)

I should refer you to this map I just saw in /r/MapPorn. French territory was much poorer than English territory. New France was typically not very stable and resulted in a substantial degree of integration with the Native population. Relations between the locals and the settlers are much better than in Spanish-controlled territory, as the Spanish take a pretty brutal approach to living life in North America. The French traded with natives from the outset of the New French colony in an effort to gain a monopoly over the fur trade. The French exploited existing inter-tribal alliances and rivalries to establish trade relationships with the Huron, Montagnais, and Algonquins along the St. Lawrence River and further inland toward the Great Lakes. These Native Americans competed for exclusive status as intermediaries between other Indian traders and the French. Guns, silverware, and textiles were traded regularly for furs and pelts. Life there was dirtier, gritter, harder, and slower than in the 13 British colonies due to economic downturns and failure to control the fur trade. One might say a day in the life of a French settler involved more positive interaction with the Native Americans and hunting than a farming or bureaucratic lifestyle (which the British tended towards.) The Native Americans often taught the New French how to survive off of the land, which was useful to the settlers because France was never really able to support her colonies in America very well due to constant strife in the mother country as well as strong competition from the British and Dutch. One can infer that life became rather aboriginal at times for these French. France formally ceded New France to the British in the Treaty of Paris, signed on February 10, 1763. French culture and religion remained dominant in most of the former territory of New France, until the arrival of British settlers led to the later creation of Upper Canada (today Ontario) and New Brunswick. After the British surrendered to the Americans at Yorktown in 1781, the Treaty of Versailles in 1783 gave all former British claims in New France below the Great Lakes into the possession of the nascent United States. The Louisiana Territory, under Spanish control since the end of the Seven Year's War, remained off-limits to settlement from the thirteen American colonies. Twenty years later, Third Treaty of San Ildefonso secretly returned Louisiana to France in 1801, leading Napoleon Bonaparte to sell it to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and separating Lousiana from Canada. This represented the end of the French colonial empire in North America In 1803, Emperor Napoleon sold the entire territory to President Thomas Jefferson because it was largely regarded as an economic burden/failure. It wasn't worth contending with the United States, a rising power.
Source: The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760 and The People of New France

edited for grammar.