Transcript Colonization program of the Church

Colonization program of the
Church
Guided notes
Dossier 2
Goal
• By the end of today’s class I will be able to..
1) Name the objectives pursued by the Church
2) Indicate actions taken by the Church to support evangelization and
provide religious and social guidance
KEY WORDS
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• Evangelization
• Missions
• Religious orders
• Parishes
Power of the church…
Influence of the church
Guiding questions:
• Why did religious communities want to come to New France?
• What role did the church play in the development of Canadian
society?
The move to evangelize
• In the 16th century, there were religious wars, such as the crusades.
• Everyone thought that their own religion was the right religion
• They truly believed that they had found the Americas, and the native
Americans, to create a perfect Catholic society for G-d.
• They believed it was their duty to convert (evangelize) the natives!
Were they successful?????
• What do you think?
• Yes and no…..
Limited success
• The natives resisted evangelization
• Only seven Catholic-Amerindian villages were established during
the French Regime
• Amerindians integrated their traditional beliefs in the tenants of
Catholicism
Missions
• Missions served to convert natives.
• People who worked on missions were called missionaries
• Missions looked like villages- they had a church, and a few buildings
where the missionaries and the natives they were converting lived.
Jesuits
• As of 1611 Jesuits established
in New France.
• It was their mission to
evangelize the natives
• To achieve this goal, they
decided to live among the
natives, later founding
missions
Disappointing results
They believed there needed to be more French Canadians in the colony.
• If there were more French Catholics- it would be easier to integrate the
natives into French society
• They wanted the natives to have French values, and a sedentary way of
life
The founding of Ville-Marie (Montreal)
• Ville-Marie (today Montreal) was founded in 1642 in order to convert
natives.
• It was placed very close to an Iroquois village (today Kanawake)
• Because it was so close to the native village, Ville-Marie soon became
an important trading post