The voyageurs and coureurs des bois whose French empire of the fur trade shaped the soul of North America's heartland.
New France — the French colonial empire in North America that stretched at its greatest extent from the Gulf of St. Lawrence through the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi River valley to the Gulf of Mexico, a vast territory of forests, rivers, and prairies that French explorers, missionaries, traders, and settlers claimed for the Crown of France between Jacques Cartier's first voyage up the St. Lawrence in 1534 and the Treaty of Paris of 1763 that transferred New France to British control, a two-hundred-and-thirty-year enterprise of exploration and settlement whose consequences for the human geography, cultural character, and political development of North America were profound and enduring. The New France world — whose coureurs des bois and voyageurs, the independent fur traders who paddled birchbark canoes deep into the continental interior building relationships of trade and kinship with Algonquin, Huron, Ojibwe, and other indigenous nations, created a distinctly French-indigenous métis culture of the pays d'en haut whose legacy survives in the Métis nation of Canada, whose Jesuit missionaries produced in the Relations de la Nouvelle-France some of the most detailed ethnographic accounts of indigenous North American life ever written while simultaneously working to transform the spiritual world of the peoples they encountered, and whose habitants of the St. Lawrence valley developed in their ribbon farms, parish churches, and communal traditions a French Canadian civilization of remarkable cultural tenacity that survived the British conquest to become the Québécois nation whose language, faith, and identity endure as one of North America's most distinctive and proudly maintained cultural inheritances. This interactive sweatshirt connects you to that enduring legacy with a QR code linking to the full story.
HERITAG is a purpose-driven brand that celebrates cultural diversity and awareness. Wear and share your social identity and cultural heritage with a unique collection of interactive sweatshirts that carry historical flags of America. Create interactive, informative and fun moments by inviting people to scan the visible QR code and learn about the proud history of America.
Making products on demand instead of in bulk also helps reduce overproduction, and this quality sweatshirt is made especially for you as soon as you place an order.
Few more things to know about this product: • Scannable QR code printed on the back for an interactive and fun experience • Designed to educate about a nation's proud history milestones and rich culture • Custom print-on-demand • 50% cotton, 50% polyester • Regular fit, sturdy and warm, pre-shrunk soft-feel fabric • Double-needle stitched spandex collar, shoulders, armholes, cuffs, and hem
