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Mercantilsim New France colony has encountered many obstacles when trying to settle. The French have settled in an area where little is known about many important things. The competition for land is something that is always getting in the way and getting people to come to this new land has proven to be increasingly difficult. Overall, New France has been somewhat of let down in terms of economic pay back to the home land and many other factors that make a colony what it is. New France's slow economic growth was contributed to the nature of the colony, with its harsh geographic and climatic conditions. The geographic placement of New France resulted in slow economic growth. New France was far from its metropolitan centre. Travelling from La Rochelle to Quebec often involved extremely dangerous routes and navigation was greatly relied upon when entering the St. Lawrence River. Normally it took about two months to get to New France. The return passage took roughly a month. The northern elements left the land very hard to work, agraculture was a must for New France to succeed. Fertile soil was generally new, france, economic, growth, colony, economy, often, led, land, trade, soil, slow, settlers, effected, thier, poor, north, nature, months, money, large, lack, harvesting, geographic, french, contributed, conditions, climatic, very, took, terrible, st, something, routes, resulted