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Originally Posted by DragonChi
Offtopic, more about Canadian history.
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I've read a new articles and there are no mentions of jesuit missionaries for the french settlement. They speak about the fur trade though.
"In 1604 Champlain sailed to Acadia with Pierre Dugua de Mons, who planned to establish a French colony there. Champlain had no position of command at either of the Acadian settlements at Ste-Croix or Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, NS). As a cartographer, he was given responsibility for investigating the coast in search of an ideal location for settlement. He was also required to act as diplomat in dealings with the Aboriginal peoples that Dugua wanted to get to know better. Twice, in 1605 and 1606, he explored the coastline of what is now New England, going as far south as Cape Cod. In 1608, Dugua chose the St Lawrence over Acadia and sent Champlain to establish a settlement at Québec, where the fur trade with native peoples in the interior could be controlled more easily."
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia....l-de-champlain
Yeah, I really like watching those documentries and the history of Canada. Took me a while though, like 3 months while i was unemployed, I found them really dry.
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Yea they seem a tad dry. I started watching last night, buuuut fell asleep halfway through the first one. I did catch that they stated John Guy as creating the first permanent settlement in Canada in 1610, but from what I found that is incorrect, as it was Champlain who did so in 1605 and then again in 1608 in the st Lawrence/Quebec.
I'll watch more of it tonight, maybe not so late haha.
Some info:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesu..._North_America
I found this series a few years back. It's got that good old Canadian feel to it. Like you're back in high school social studies. they're only about half hour too. Check it out. I think you'll like them.
Here's an episode detailing the dynamics of what i was talking about