. The story of the Dominion : four hundred years in the annals of half a continent ; a history of Canada from its early discovery and settlement to the present time ; embracing its growth, progress and achievements in the pursuits of peace and war. re came sweeping down, and around them,the wintry storms of the wildest and most exposed spot on the wholeAtlantic coast. How any of them ever survived that winter Is amarvel—that some did live throucrh It Is a fact. Broken in healthand heart and fortune, De la Roche returned to France with themiserable remnant of his expedition, and died soon after
. The story of the Dominion : four hundred years in the annals of half a continent ; a history of Canada from its early discovery and settlement to the present time ; embracing its growth, progress and achievements in the pursuits of peace and war. re came sweeping down, and around them,the wintry storms of the wildest and most exposed spot on the wholeAtlantic coast. How any of them ever survived that winter Is amarvel—that some did live throucrh It Is a fact. Broken in healthand heart and fortune, De la Roche returned to France with themiserable remnant of his expedition, and died soon afterwards. Meanwhile an effort had been made by a naval officer of Rouen,named Chauvin, and a trader of St. Malo, called Pontgrave, toestablish a colony on the shores of the St. Lawrence for purposes offur-trading. They procured from the King certain rights ofmonopoly and the beginning was made of what eventually became agreat business. The small settlement started for this purpose atTadoussac, near the junction of the Saguenay and the St. Lawrence,was not however as successful in a colonizing sense. Sixteen menwere left to hold the port through the winter of 1599 and, in the veryseason which proved so fatal to the miserable refugees on Sable. J a P <w 2 o2 w O%h2 O w a,u w < PH<2 DISCOVERIES AND EXPLORATIONS 33 Island, the ill-equipped and ignorant colonists on the mainland weredying of cold and starvation. When the spring traders came againthey found their little colony broken up and only two or threesurvivors livinor amonorst the Indians. The fur-trade was continued,but no further effort at colonization was made at this time. Elsewhere, and amid very different surroundings, the continentwas being claimed or explored. Balboa had discovered the PacificOcean and dispelled the dream of America being a part of , at the hands of Cortez and Pizarro and Ponce de Leon, hadconquered or claimed the empires of Mexico and Peru and the wilderglades of Florida. England had
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