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• 1610-11: The English explorer Henry Hudson, in Dutch service, continues the fruitless search for a passage to Asia.
• 1610: Henry Hudson, in service of the Netherlands, explores the river named for him. Hudson explores Hudson Bay in spite of a mutinous crew. Manhattan Indians attack his ship. Mahican people make peaceful contact, and a lucrative fur trade begins.
• 1610: Etienne Brule lives among Huron and is first European to see Lakes Ontario, HuronLake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of eastern North America, and separates Michigan from Ontario. Georgian Bay, the easternmost part of Lake Huron, is entirely within Canada. Lake Huron is separated from Lake Michigan, which lies at the same level, and SuperiorLake Superior is the largest of North America's Great Lakes. It is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area with Lake Baikal in Siberia having more volume. The Caspian Sea is larger, but contains salt water. Lake Superior has a surface are.
• 1611: ChamplainSamuel de Champlain by Theophile Hamel (1870) Samuel de Champlain 1567 1635 was a French geographer, draftsman, explorer and founder of Quebec City. Born in Brouage, France, much of Champlain's early life is unknown. His first trip to North America was on builds fur post at MontrealMontreal (/mVn. tri"Al/ in English, /mO~. re"al/ in French) is the largest city in the province of Quebec, Canada, where it also constitutes an administrative region. It is Canada's second most populous city after Toronto ( Statistics Canada), and the sec.
• 1613: In response to gunfire aimed at them, the Beothuk of NewfoundlandThis is about the island in Canada. For the Canadian province of Newfoundland see Newfoundland and Labrador. For other meanings of Newfoundland see Newfoundland (disambiguation). Newfoundland is a large island off the north-east coast of North America, an kill 37 French fisherman. The French retaliate by arming the Micmac, traditional enemies of the Beothuk, and offering bounties for scalps. The Beothuk are soon virtually exterminated.
• 1613: 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 sacked by Samuel Argall and his pirates from Virginia.
• 1614: Franciscan Recollet friars arrive to convert the Indians.
• 1615: French Roman Catholic missionaries arrive in Canada.
• 1615: Champlain attacks Onondaga villages with the help of a Huron war party, this turning the Iroquois League against the French.
• 1616-20: Smallpox epidemic strikes New England tribes between Narragansett Bay and the Penobscot River.
• 1617: Louis Hebert, an apothecary who had stayed at Port Royal twice, brings his wife and children to Quebec, thus becoming the first true habitant (permanent settler supporting his family from the soil).