Topic - Canada 2
a private furtrading company. If the company brought settlers to New France, it would have
a monopoly on the fur trade and they would receive all the profits.
Early attempts at colonization failed. But in 1604 a French noble man and a map
maker named Samuel de Chaplain established the first permanent French settlement in the
New World on the coast of presentday New Brunswick. They called the area Acadie. They
spent a terrible first winter there so they moved to a more sheltered place on the harbour of
Nova Scotia and called it Port Royal. But then France decided that Port Royal was too far
from the centre of the fur trade and chose to establish a new French settlement along the St.
Lawrence River. The French settlers left Port Royal and returned to France. But some of
them stayed to farm. These people are the ancestors of the Frenchspeaking people today.
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