Like Jacques Cartier, his objective was toįind a passage to India.
Samuel de Champlain, considered the founder of New France, established a settlement in what is now Quebec City in 1608. Private enterprise was what lay behind the exploration of America. This activity eventually drew the French further into the interior of the continent. To 1590, a number of fishermen turned toward the fur trade ( see Fur Trade). As early as 1550, fishermen were drying fish on the region’s shores, making contact with the Indigenous peoples and bringing furs back to France. Since the early 16 th century of Basque, Breton and Norman fisherman on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland hasīeen confirmed. In the interim, however, and even before the arrival of the great explorers, the French showed interest in the region’s fishing resources ( see Fisheries). During the winter, twenty-five of his men died of Lawrence, wintered in Stadacona (site of what is now Quebec City)Īnd continued on to Hochelaga (present-day Montreal). The following year, he travelled up the St. He took possession of the land in the name of the king of France by planting a cross in Gaspé ( see Gaspé Peninsula) in 1534. Later, Jacques Cartier made three voyages of discovery. In 1524, Giovanni Verrazzano sailed up the eastern coast of America, from Florida to Newfoundland. John Cabot in 1497, and the Corte-Real brothers ( see also Portuguese),įrance became interested in maritime exploration. Following in the footsteps of other European powers (England, Spain and Portugal) and the voyages to America by Christopher Columbus in 1492, The founding of New France was part of the vast wave of European exploration initiatives in the 16th century. Lawrence Lowland),įrance settled a population which has continued to affirm its vitality and culture to the present day. Of a continent where it succeeded in controlling three quarters of the land, including Acadia. However, it was primarily from the founding of Quebec City in 1608 to the ceding of Canada to Britain in 1763 that France left its mark on the history Indigenous peoples had occupied the lands that became New France for millennia and the Vikings had been frequent visitors since the end of the 10th century ( see Norse Voyages).
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