History of Christianity in the United States History of Christianity in the United States Christianity was introduced to North America as it was colonized by Europeans beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Spanish, French, and British brought Roman Catholicism to the colonies of New Spain, New France and Maryland respectively, while Northern European peoples introduced Protestantism to Massachusetts Bay Colony, New Netherland, Virginia colony, Carolina Colony, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Lower Canada. Among Protestants, adherents to Anglicanism, Methodism, the Baptist Church, Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, Lutheranism, Quakerism, Mennonite and Moravian Church were the first to settle in the US, spreading their faith in the new country. Today
The People of New France aimed at providing high school teachers from across Canada with "strategies and perspectives for teaching Canadian history". The book appeared on the reading list for a course on New France at Queen's University in Kingston, HIST 350. The book has also been assigned for HIST 334, History of New France, at McGill University, where Greer is currently teaching. The People of New France The People of New France ("Brève histoire des peuples de la Nouvelle-France" in French) is a book of Canadian history during the 17th and 18th Centuries written by Allan Greer and published by the University of Toronto