Champlain, instructed by Henry IV to make…
June 1604 CE
Champlain, instructed by Henry IV to make a report on his further discoveries, joins another expedition to New France led by French aristocrat Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts in the spring of 1604.
Dugua has been given a monopoly on the fur trade by the Government of France.
In addition to complete fur-trading rights, he has also been granted power of admiralty, the right to seize any ships and cargo of illegal traders, the right to give land grants to members of his company, and in general, near complete control over all aspects of government in New France.
A condition for this grant is the stipulation that he establish a colony, thus Dugua, accompanied by Champlain and seventy-seven other settlers, all men (most of whom are hired for a one-year term), a settlement is established on a small island in a river on the north shore of what they call Baie François (today called the Bay of Fundy).
The settlers are French subjects primarily from the Pleumartin to Poitiers in the Vienne département of west-central France.
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