France colonized North America because of the great amount of furs they found there.The French trades with the Indians for furs that they then too back sold in Europe because people were willing to pay a lot of money for Furs in Europe
some French missionaries eventually made their way to North America in order to convert Native Americans to Catholicism. The original intent of Dutch colonization was to find a path to Asia through North America, but after finding the fur trade profitable, the Dutch claimed the area of New Netherlands.
