<P> Traditionally Canadiens had a subsistence agriculture in Eastern Canada (Québec), this subsistence agriculture slowly evolved in dairy farm during the end of the 19th century and the beginning of 20th century while retaining the subsistence side . By 1960 agriculture changed toward an industrial agriculture . </P> <P> The French were the first Europeans to permanently colonize what is now Quebec, parts of Ontario, Acadia, and select areas of Western Canada, all in Canada (See French colonization of the Americas .) Their colonies of New France (also commonly called Canada) stretched across what today are the Maritime provinces, southern Quebec and Ontario, as well as the entire Mississippi River Valley . </P> <P> The first permanent European settlements in Canada were at Port Royal in 1605 and Quebec City in 1608 as fur trading posts . The territories of New France were Canada, Acadia (later renamed Nova Scotia), and Louisiana . The inhabitants of Canada called themselves the Canadiens, and came mostly from northwestern France . The early inhabitants of Acadia, or Acadiens, came mostly but not exclusively from the Southwestern region of France . Canadien explorers and fur traders would come to be known as coureurs des bois, while those who settled on farms in Canada would come to be known as habitants . Many French Canadians are the descendants of the King's Daughters of this era . Many also are the descendants of mixed French and Algonquin marriages . </P> <P> During the mid-18th century, French explorers and Canadiens born in French Canada colonized other parts of North America in what are today the states of Louisiana (called Louisianais), Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, Vincennes, Indiana, Louisville, Kentucky, the Windsor - Detroit region and the Canadian prairies (primarily Southern Manitoba). </P>

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