New France colony has encountered many obstacles when trying to settle.
have settled in an area where little is known about many important things. The competition for .
land is something that is always getting in the way and getting people to come to this new land has .
proven to be increasingly difficult. Overall, New France has been somewhat of let down in terms .
of economic pay back to the home land and many other factors that make a colony what it is. New .
France's slow economic growth was contributed to the nature of the colony, with its harsh .
geographic and climatic conditions. .
The geographic placement of New France resulted in slow economic growth. New France .
was far from its metropolitan centre. Travelling from La Rochelle to Quebec often involved .
extremely dangerous routes and navigation was greatly relied upon when entering the St. .
Lawrence River. Normally it took about two months to get to New France. The return passage .
took roughly a month. The northern elements left the land very hard to work, agraculture was a .
must for New France to succeed. Fertile soil was generally based around the St Lawrence valley. .
Often the soil was over worked and this led to "soil exhaustion". This would devistated the .
economic growth of New France. The lack of fertile soil led to the lack of food, and without food .
being sold, money could not be in movement amoungst the people. The rich got richer and the .
poor got poorer. Geographic placement of New France was a large part of thier economic .
problems. .
Climatic conditions in New France resulted in slow economic growth for the colony. The .
terrible conditions of the North America, left the settlers with little knowledge of what to .
expect, because of the upredictability of the climate. Crop failure was often contributed to .
drought, grasshopper or caterpillar plagues, or even frost, which is always present, and could wipe .
out an entire years worth of agricultural exports.
