Why were French settlers primarily located in the Quebec region of Canada?
The area around the Hudson Bay was claimed by England, one barrier to expansion. Most of Canada is cold and wilderness filled then with Indians. The French found it easier to deal with the Indians and trade for furs rather than do it themselves and expand into the cold, unexplored land. The French population in Canada was also relatively small and lived in easily defensible cities like Montreal and Quebec along the St. Lawrence River. France expanded southward down the Mississippi and into the Ohio Valley instead. It was warmer and was a strategic area to try to block English expansion inland from the east coast.
