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Smithsonian Magazine: The Shocking Savagery of America's Early History

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Gus2/22/2013 8:48:59 pm PST

re: #46 Feline Fearless Leader

Would pretty much be French settlers until after the end of the French and Indian Wars. A 1740 census put the settler population of the St Lawrence drainage area (essentially French Canada) at about 44,000. Which is roughly on par with the population of the New York City and the surrounding boroughs at that time.

Upper Canada was set up separately from Lower Canada (Quebec) in 1790. And it was heavily settled by Loyalists who left the 13 colonies and Scots.

So the probable equivalent to Pilgrims (17th century settlers) would be primarily French. And after a point required to be Roman Catholics, or at a minimum renounce their Protestant faith. And population-wise New France was never able to successfully compete with the English colonies to the south.

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100 years hence. Thus more civilized. By then the UK had outlawed torture for example.