In this episode, we explore the early French attempts to settle in what would become Acadia, from Saint Croix to the more promising shores of Port-Royal. Who were the people who came? What were they hoping for? And how did they survive in a land already home to the Mi’kmaq? Join us as we discuss the story of one of the first European settlements in what is now Canada and the important relationship between those a settlers and the Mi'kmaq.

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Sources:

John Mack Faragher, A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland. 2005

David Hackett Fischer, Champlain's Dream. 2008

Daniel N. Paul, We Were Not The Savages 4th Ed, 2022

Marcel Trudel, The Beginnings of New France 1524-1663. 1973

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There had been a few men with colonial ambitions from France but they had all ended in failure. Champlain starts his colonial career as an observer ready to learn some lessons from his predecessors.

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Sources:

Champlain's Dream by David Hacket Fischer

Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 vol.1 by Bryan D. Palmer

Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Reconsidered by Bruce Trigger

The Beginnings of New France 1524-1663 by Marcel Trudel

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