Company of One Hundred Associates

"Compagnie de la Nouvelle France" and "Company of New France" redirect here. For other companies, see New France (disambiguation) and Nouvelle France (disambiguation).
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Company of One Hundred Associates
Company typeChartered company
IndustryFur trade
Founded1627; 397 years ago (1627)
Defunct1663; 361 years ago (1663)
FateDissolved by King Louis XIV
HeadquartersFrance
Area served
New France

The Company of One Hundred Associates (French: formally the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France, or colloquially the Compagnie des Cent-Associés or Compagnie du Canada), or Company of New France, was a French trading and colonization company chartered in 1627 to capitalize on the North American fur trade and to administer and expand French colonies there.[1] The company was granted a monopoly to manage the fur trade in the colonies of New France, which were at that time centered on the Saint Lawrence River valley and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. In return, the company was supposed to settle French Catholics in New France. The Company of One Hundred Associates was dissolved by King Louis XIV, who incorporated New France into a province in 1663.[2]

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