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• c. 1600: By now, perhaps 250,000 Indians and Inuit (Eskimo) inhabit what is now Canada.
• 1600: King Henry IV of France grants a fur-trading monopoly in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to a group of French merchants.
• 1602 Francoise Marie Jacqueline de la Tour is the first European woman to make a home in Acadia.
• 1603-15 - Samuel de Champlain's (c.1567-1635) voyages in the Northeast lead to contacts with many Algonquian and Iroquoian tribes. He explores the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River for France.
• 1603: A fur trade monopoly charter is granted by France to the sieur de Monts to all the land lying between 40th-46th degrees north latitude. He establishes trade settlements in AcadiaThere is a also a U. national park called Acadia National Park . national flag of Acadia, adopted in 1884. Acadia (in French Acadie , named after the mythical Arcadia, was the name given by the French to a territory including today's Canadian Maritime pro (later Nova ScotiaNova Scotia ( In Detail) ( In Detail) Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (One defends and the other conquers Capital Halifax Largest City Halifax Area Total % fresh water 12th largest(9th lgst prov. 55 284 km² 3. 5% Population Total (2001) Density Ranked) and at Quebec City on the St. Lawrence.
• 1604-06: Mattieu da Costa travels with the Champlain expedition to Port RoyalThis article is about the former capital city of Jamaica. For the French convent, see Port-Royal. For information on the South Carolina town see: Port Royal, South Carolina. For the Canadian community and early French colony see: Port Royal, Nova Scotia P. He serves as an interpreter between the French and the Micmac Indians of the area.
• 1605-07: The Europeans are welcomed by Mi'kmaq Grand Chief Membertou, who converts to Catholicism, makes a wampum-belt treaty with the Vatican.
• 1605: Samuel de Champlain and the sieur de Poutrincourt found Port Royal on the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia (later to be named Annapolis Royal by the British), the first permanent French settlement in North America.
• 1607: English colonists found Jamestown, VirginiaJamestown was a village on an island in the James River in Virginia, about 45 miles southeast of where Richmond, Virginia, is now. Both the river and the 1607 settlement there were named for King James I of England who had recently come to the throne then under John Smith, leading to extensive contact with the tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy.
• 1608: Champlain allies himself with the Algonquians and with the Hurons, who are amenable to missionary activities and acts as the principal suppliers of furs. This alliance, however, antagonizes the Iroquoian Confederacy, traditional rivals of the Huron and suppliers of furs to the Dutch in New Amsterdam.
• 1608: Quebec (the city) is established as a fur post by Champlain and French colonists on July 3, creating in effect the first permanent European settlement.
• 1609: The settlement of Quebec owes much to Samuel de Champlain, an explorer hired by the sieur de Monts, who became the foremost champion of French colonization.
• 1609: Champlain supports the Algonquins against the Iroquois at Lake Champlain. He fires on the Iroquois, setting a pattern of Indian relationships.