Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador; . uilt stations on its banks, established themselves as fur-traders, but their numbers dwindled as years went on. \\ltli the death of Francis I. and the troublous times that ensued in France, it looked as if Canada had been forgotten. ^ English Voyagers. The English had not been slow in following upthe Cabots discoveries. From a very early date in the sixteenth cen-tury, according to good authorities, Devon sailorswere to be found fishing off Newfoundland, wherethey formed temporary settlements. We next readof Frobi
Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador; . uilt stations on its banks, established themselves as fur-traders, but their numbers dwindled as years went on. \\ltli the death of Francis I. and the troublous times that ensued in France, it looked as if Canada had been forgotten. ^ English Voyagers. The English had not been slow in following upthe Cabots discoveries. From a very early date in the sixteenth cen-tury, according to good authorities, Devon sailorswere to be found fishing off Newfoundland, wherethey formed temporary settlements. We next readof Frobishers voyages from the gulf northwards,and of Sir Humphrey Gilberts taking formalpossession of Newfoundland in the name of QueenElizabeth. Sir Humphrey, who was half-brother to SirWalter Raleigh, was no coloniser, and his schemescame to naught. After many adventures he waslost in his little vessel the Squirrel on the returnvoyage in 1583. Then followed Captain Davis, who sailed upinto the Arctic circle, and, a little later, CaptainHenry Hudson. The latter discovered the great. 8 CANADA. bay called by his name, but only to perish thereafter being set adrift by mutineers. Acadia. The year 1604 is noteworthy in Canadian his-tory as the date when the French under De Montssettled in what is now known as Nova Scotia, butwas then named Acadia. Longfellow has madethis region famous for all time in his fine poem, Evangeline. Port Royal was at once founded, and the workof colonisation went on apace. Among the first settlers was Samuel Champlain,a man who was to do still greater things in theopening up of Canada, or New France, as it wasthen being called. The French king, Louis XIIL,made lavish gifts of this new territory to his favour-ites, but the province thus taken over by Franceextended so far south as to include Raleighs colonyof Virginia, and thus the English and French werebrought face to face on the new continent. Samuel Champlain. Champlain, the greatest of the French explorers,
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