List of French forts in North America
This is a list of forts in New France built by the French government or French Chartered companies in what later became Canada, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the United States. They range from large European-type citadels like at Quebec City to tiny fur-trade posts.
Canada
The French forts in Canada were located from the Atlantic Ocean to as far west as the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers, and as far north as James Bay. Built between the 1640s and the 1750s, a few were captured from rival British fur trading companies like Hudson's Bay Company. The forts were located on waterways to provide transport of fur back east to Montreal or Quebec City. A few have survived or been re-built, but most are ruins or simply disappeared after abandonment.| Name | Date constructed ca. | Location | Province | Image |
| Fort Anne | 1636 | Annapolis Royal | ||
| Fort Bas de la Rivière | 1750 | Fort Alexander | ||
| Fort Boishébert | 1749 | Grand Bay | ||
| Fort Beauséjour | 1751 | Aulac | ||
| Fort Bourbon | 1741 | Grand Rapids | - | |
| Fort Bourbon | 1697 | York Factory | ||
| Fort Charlesbourg Royal | 1541–1543 | Cap-Rouge | ||
| Fort Chambly | 1665 | Chambly | ||
| Citadelle of Quebec | 1693 | Quebec City | ||
| Citadelle of Montreal | 1690–1821 | Montreal | ||
| Fort Dauphin | 1741 | Winnipegosis | - | |
| Fort de la Corne | 1753 | Fort à la Corne Provincial Forest | ||
| Fort de la Montagne | 1685 | Montreal | ||
| Fort Douville | 1720 | Toronto | ||
| Fort Dumoine | 1730 | Pontiac Regional County Municipality | ||
| Fort du Moulin | 1749 | Trois-Rivières | ||
| Fort du Sault Saint-Louis | 1725 | Kahnawake | ||
| Fort Frontenac | 1673 | Kingston | ||
| Fort Gaspareaux | 1751 | Port Elgin | ||
| Fort Kaministiquia | 1717 | Thunder Bay | ||
| Fort Lachine | 1669–1695 | Lachine | ||
| Fort Laprairie | 1687 | Laprairie | ||
| Fort La Reine | 1738 | Portage la Prairie | ||
| Fort Le Jonquiere | 1751 | Saskatchewan River Forks | ||
| Fortress of Louisbourg | 1719 | Louisbourg | ||
| Fort Maurepas | 1733 | Selkirk | ||
| Fort Menagoueche | 1751 | Saint John | ||
| Fort Paskoya | 1741 | The Pas | ||
| Fort Plaisance | 1662 | Placentia | ||
| Fort Pointe-aux-Trembles | 1670 | Pointe-aux-Trembles | ||
| Fort Richelieu | 1641 | near Sorel-Tracy | ||
| Fort Rouge | 1738 | Winnipeg | ||
| Fort Rouillé / Fort Toronto | 1750 | Toronto | ||
| Fort Royal | 1687 | Placentia | ||
| Fort Sainte Anne | 1670 | Fort Albany | ||
| Fort Sainte Anne | 1629–1641 | Englishtown | - | |
| Fort Saint-François | 1660 | Trois-Rivières | ||
| Fort Saint Jacques | 1686–1693 and 1697–1713 | Waskaganish, Quebec | ||
| Fort Saint-Jean | 1746 | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu | ||
| Fort Saint Louis | 1690–1713 | Placentia | ||
| Fort St. Louis | 1620–1834 | Quebec | ||
| Fort St. Louis | 1623–1930 | Cape Sable Island | ||
| Fort St. Louis | 1670s | Moose Factory | ||
| Fort St. Pierre | 1731 | Fort Frances | ||
| Fort Sainte Thérèse | 1665 | Carignan | ||
| Fort Senneville | 1671 | Montreal | ||
| Fort Témiscamingue | 1679 | Ville Marie | ||
| Fort Ville-Marie | 1642–1688 | Montreal | ||
| Port-la-Joye | 1720 | Charlottetown |
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
United States
The French forts built in what is now the United States, were part of a series of forts built from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi delta; as far west as the Dakotas, as far east as Maine.| Name | Date constructed ca. | Location | State | Image |
| Arkansas Post | 1686 | Arkansas County | ||
| Fort des Alibamons | 1717 | Wetumpka | ||
| Fort Assumption | 1739 | Memphis | ||
| 1722 | Plaquemines Parish | |||
| Fort Beauharnois | 1727 | Goodhue County | ||
| Fort De La Boulaye | 1700 | Phoenix, Plaquemines Parish | ||
| Fort de Buade | 1683 | St. Ignace | ||
| Fort Carillon | 1754–57 | Ticonderoga | ||
| Fort Caroline | 1564 | Jacksonville | ||
| Fort de Cavagnal | 1744 | Missouri River between Kansas City and Fort Leavenworth | ||
| Fort Charles | 1562 | Beaufort | ||
| Fort de Chartres | 1720 | Randolph County | ||
| Fort Condé de la Mobille | 1723 | Mobile | ||
| Fort Conti | 1679 | Youngstown | ||
| Fort Crèvecoeur | 1680 | Creve Coeur | ||
| Fort Denonville | 1687 | Youngstown | ||
| Fort Ponchartrain du Détroit | 1701 | Detroit | ||
| 1722 | Belle Chase | |||
| Fort Duquesne | 1750 | Morrison County | ||
| Fort Duquesne | 1754 | Pittsburgh | ||
| Fort Dubreuil | 1740 | Destrehan | ||
| 1708 | New Orleans | |||
| Fort Kaskaskia | 1759 | Kaskaskia | ||
| Fort de La Présentation | 1671 | Ogdensburg | ||
| Fort Le Boeuf | 1753 | Waterford | ||
| Fort Lévis | 1759 | Ogdensburg | ||
| Fort Louis de la Louisiane | 1702 | Le Moyne | ||
| Fort Machault | 1754 | Franklin | - | |
| Fort Massac | 1757 | Massac County | ||
| Fort Maurepas | 1699 | Ocean Springs | ||
| Fort Miami | 1715 | Fort Wayne | - | |
| Fort Miami | 1679 | St. Joseph | ||
| Fort Michilimackinac | 1715 | Mackinaw City | ||
| Fort des Natchitoches | 1714 | Natchitoches | ||
| Fort Niagara | 1678 | Youngstown | ||
| Fort Orleans | 1723 | Brunswick | ||
| Fort Ouiatenon | 1717 | West Lafayette | - | |
| Fort Pentagouet | 1638 | Castine | ||
| 1761 | Buras-Triumph | |||
| Fort Pimiteoui | 1691 | Peoria | ||
| Fort Presque Isle | 1753 | Erie | ||
| Fort Prudhomme | 1682 | Memphis | ||
| Fort Rosalie | 1716 | Natchez | - | |
| Fort Ste. Anne | 1666 | Isle La Motte | ||
| Fort St. Charles | 1732 | Lake of the Woods County | - | |
| Fort St. Frédéric | 1729–1757 | Crown Point | ||
| Fort St. Joseph | 1691 | Niles | - | |
| 1749 | Belle Chase | |||
| Fort Saint Louis | 1685 | Inez | ||
| Fort St. Louis-Le Rocher | 1682 | North Utica | ||
| Fort St. Marie | 1746 | English Turn | ||
| Fort Sandoské | 1745 | Sandusky Bay | ||
| Fort de Tombecbé | 1735–37 | Epes | - | |
| Fort Toulouse | 1717 | Wetumpka | ||
| Fort Vincennes | 1731–32 | Vincennes |