Founder 1604-1609 (E03)

Our correspondent returns to Sainte-Croix Island, the first French settlement in Acadia and Champlain’s first failure owing to the consequences of a devastating disease: scurvy. The settlement on Sainte-Croix Island moves to a more promising site: Port-Royal. In 1608 Champlain is given a new mission: to found a permanent settlement in the St Lawrence valley. The approaching winter worries Champlain and he makes the settlers work tirelessly. This proves too much for them by the end of the summer. They begin to grumble and to conspire against him. (TFO)