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The King of France decided to award a
monopoly for the trading of furs to Pierre Dugua de Mons
in 1603 in America. He decided that he would establish a
colony in America to build up trade in the new world. He
and his colonists, including Samuel de Champlain,
arrived off the coast of present day New Brunswick and
Maine and decided to establish their settlement on an
Island in a river which they named St Croix Island.
The first winter was a disaster with
little game to hunt, scurvy affecting most colonists and
a very unsheltered conditions. In he spring they
searched for another area to re-establish their colony
and Champlain found the location of present day Port
Royale. They disassembled their buildings and brought
them across the Bay of Fundy to the east side and
rebuilt them. They set up the new colony and it
started to thrive. In 1607 the Sieur de Mons monopoly
was suddenly revoked and most of the colonists returned
to France. The
progress of the colony was sporadic with attacks by the
English, politics back in France and challenges in the
new world all causing difficulties. Although it slowly
grew, the expulsion of the Acadians, French, brought
dreams of a New France in Nova Scotia to an end.
In 1939-40 the Port Royale fort was
rebuilt by the Canadian Government and today is a part
of the Parks Canada system with excellent presentation
and representation of those early years of settlement.
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