Topic - Canada 2
By 1600 the wealth from the fur trade and the fishing industry
renewed French interests in North America. The King of France decided to settle what is now
eastern Canada. The colony would be named New France. But for that claim to be
internationally recognized the region had to be successfully colonized by the French. To
avoid the high costs of building the settlements the King of France made an agreement with
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
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