Episode 3: Follows the development of New France into a flourishing society and its claim to a massive continent between 1660 and 1750. Describes the populace of shopkeepers, artisans, farmers and landlords, as well as fur-trading expansionists like Governor Frontenac and his commercial partner, Robert Cavelier de la Salle, who built a network of Indian alliances to extend French trading posts to the Gulf of Mexico. Explains the resulting conflict with the wealthier, more numerous but less venturesome British colonists to the south, which culminates with the deportation by the British of the more than 10,000 French Catholic settlers in the colony of Acadia (Nova Scotia).Episode 4: Covers the two decades in the mid-eighteenth century that determined the destiny of North America. Relates how the Seven Years' War between France and England began as a clash between les Canadiens and land-hungry American settlers in the Ohio Valley, and escalated into a war that engulfed the continent. Depicts the naval invasion of Louisbourg, and recounts General James Wolfe's siege of Quebec and the battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759. Covers the aftermath of that battle and the changing fortunes of the different forces up to the end of the war in 1763, when 70,000 French colonists came under British rule, setting in motion the ever-evolving French-English dynamic in Canada.