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Leader killed.
Panonias, the leader of a Mi'gmaq war party against the Penobscot, was killed in battle and his corpse brought back to Port Royal for burial -
Samuel du champlain
Samuel de Champlain and Pierre du Gast, the Sieur de Monts, explored what later became New Brunswick and named the Saint John River. A small French settlement was established on Dochets Island in the St. Croix River in Charlotte County on the Maine and New Brunswick border. -
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The French and families
The French colonists moved across the Bay of Fundy from Dochets Island to Port Royal on the present-day Annapolis Basin in Nova Scotia. France sent out more settlers and gradually new communities were established. The colonists lived along the riverbanks, diking and farming the tidal marshlands, raising cattle and other livestock, and having large healthy families. -
Take over
The French Royal government takes over direct control of New France from the charter corporation and sends 1,000 soldiers to Canada. -
Fall of new france
Fall of new france
