How did the goals of the french colonists differ from those of the english colonists?

Ordinary French homesteaders included hide merchants and Catholic minister of whom wished to assemble towns or raise families, as did the English. The French colonization of the Americas started in the sixteenth century and proceeded into the next hundreds of years as France set up a frontier domain in the Western Hemisphere. France established provinces in a lot of eastern North America, on various Caribbean islands, and in South America.