The transformation of territory into property for European colonists lies at the heart of the colonization process.  

Under French rule, New Orleans took only limited advantage of its position as the gateway to the Mississippi, but it quickly became a slave society following the model of Saint-Domingue.

Both an island and a town, Montreal boasted two essential geographical features that made it an indispensable site for Indigenous peoples and, later, European colonists: the Saint Lawrence River and its tributaries and th...

Under the French Regime, the city of Quebec was the administrative centre of the colony from 1608 to 1759.