What was France's primary colony in the New World?

While the most important French colony in what would later become the United States was Louisiana, with its sugar plantations and important port in New Orleans at the mouth of the Mississippi River, France's largest and primary colony in the New World was New/Nouvelle France, which was primarily comprised of land that today belongs to Canada.
New France spread from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes area. Parts of the territory remained under French rule until 1763, when the French lost the French and Indian war and the territory was ceded to the British. The French had navigated the St. Lawrence River and founded such cities as Montreal and Quebec.
What is now part of present-day Canada was lucrative territory for the French because of the abundance of animal fur and timber to be found there. Fishing also became an important industry.
Quebec remains a French-speaking area in Canada, a tribute to its French legacy.