do you think?

Question

new france aka canada in the 1800s would have been as sucessful as it was without the roman catholic church?

Answer 1

Of course it would have been successful.
It would not have been any different than any area and/or city in the US.
They survived,grew, and prospered just fine without the assistance of the Roman Catholic Church, as would have the county of Canada and all it's incredible cities.
That's a very interesting question I have never considered.
Canada was a new world, just like the States, with an incredible amount of influence from many different people from around the world and their own Native American Nations also.
The Roman Catholic Church ran into the same problem with Canada as did the British Empire run into with the States......they were both a LONG WAY FROM HOME.
It was more their LACK OF CONTROL that made Canada succeed so very well as a great nation.

Answer 2

While the priests travel and found many new people and places, they also constrained the options open to new France. It is likely that New France would have had a better future is the church had not been there.

While the church led the way into new places and people all over the Americas, they did so in a way that allowed for the new peoples to accept the church or get out of the way or even die. It would have been much better without the church.

Answer 3

No, as much as we would like to take the church out of the equation the truth is the priests settled a lot of places an started the civilizations there.