New attempts in North-America (1577-1602)

• Mesgouez de La Roche, Sand Island, 1598

  • The only Catholic attempt

• Pontgravé and Chauvin

  • Chauvin is a Huguenot
  • Settlement at Tadoussac
  • Bring only ministers, even if the settlers are Catholics
  • The settlement last only for a year
  • Tadoussac became a trading post

• Tadoussac
  

Notes:

• New attempts in North-America (1577-1602)
  

• In fact there will be only one attempt made by Catholics between 1534 and 1627. In 1598, De La Roche will make a settlement on a little island offshore of Nova-Scotia. It will end in 1603.

• In 1598, with the proclamation of the Edict of Nantes, Huguenots merchants will be interested in settlement in North-America. Mr. De Pontgravé will obtain the monopoly on fur trade for Canada and Acadia. He will choose a Huguenot, Pierre Chauvin to establish a permanent trading post at Tadoussac in 1600.

• Chauvin will bring with him only Protestant ministers even if the settlers are Catholics. Scurvy will kill ten of the fifteen inhabitants during the winter. Tadoussac will become a seasonal trading post.

• After eighty years of attempt, France has not succeed in taking foot in America. The next attempt will be the right one.