Evaluate the impact of the religious orders in New France.

Candidates will make an appraisal of the impact of the various religious orders that operated in New France up to 1800. The impact could be social, economic or political. They should show a clear knowledge of the various orders and an understanding of the impact these orders had. Candidates might evaluate the impact of religious orders in general, but some orders are likely to be specifically identified. The Recollects were one of the earliest orders, arriving in 1622 and immediately reaching out to the Huron. By 1630, the Huron saw the Recollects as evil. Jesuits became the dominant order in New France. By the 1640s, thousands of Huron and Algonquin were converted to Christianity by the Jesuits. Candidates could identify the general purposes of the religious orders as conversion and control of the indigenous peoples. Whether either of these purposes was accomplished is debatable.