the former French possessions in North America.
- c1665  (1885)  The ffrench planters in Newfrance came up to live among this nation.
- 1582  (1850)  It was written vnto me by Sebastian Gaboto, our countrie man Venetian, a man of great experience, and very rare in the art of Nauigation and the knowledge of Cosmographie: who sayled along and beyonde the lande of Newe Fraunce, at the charges of King Henrie the seuenth, king of Englande.
- 1708  Another part of this Tract, is called Canada, from the River of that Name that Waters it; and New France, from a Colony of French that settled there, who at their first arrival were gladly received by the Natives, with Singing and Dancing.
- 1963  The English had thus infringed in Acadia and Hudson Bay the title to the lands Champlain sought to make French, and had blocked the development of New France for three costly years.