Acadia Divided Leads to Acadia In Flames

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I will reply as well, you know. - Yeah, 100%. - So today we are back to Acadia. Last time we were there, Champlain and Dumont and Putrenkor, they all had a grand old time with the order to bond top, that little social club that they had, that little boozy social club. - Yeah, the order of good times. - Yeah, good cheer. - Okay, good cheer, yeah. - Yeah, and then they had their rug pulled out from out of them when their funding was cut and then they got ordered back home. - Right. - So just as a tiny recap, 1608, Champlain founded Quebec, but nobody aside from fishermen, some traders, people like the Basque had really been back to the area of Acadia until 1610, so they weren't a bit, it wasn't abandoned, it was just like kind of in limbo. So the next few years in Acadia, it gets very messy. In this time, it's not because of the old nemesis Scurvy, it is religious and political discord back in France that causes most of the problems. - Okay, is it more than like, well, is it the Catholic versus the Protestant thing again? - Not, yes and no. - Oh, okay, all right, tell me more. - Yeah, so it's continuing on from the French Wars of Religion, that ended in 1598, sort of, but that kind of striped is not really end, just because a treaty signed, or it's not really treaty, it's the Edict of Nantes, so that's where Henry IV, basically to create that, the Huguenots are fine and leave them alone, but France is Catholic, sure. And the Jesuits, and many other Catholics did not like this one bit. So there are three factions at play here, there are the Huguenots, AKA the Protestants, the Ultramontaine Catholics, and the Bonfrossoir Galakins/Galakins. - Okay, don't know if I've heard of them. - So it's pretty simple to understand why the Huguenots are in this. - Yeah. - But the other two require a little more explanation. So the other two groups, they're a lot more esoteric than just Protestants having big problems in a Catholic country in the 17th century. - Yeah. - So the Ultramontaine Catholics are people who believe in the primacy of the Pope and the Galakins/Bonfrossoir, they believe that the state and the king must put the good of the country over all other matters. - Okay. - That's the tension. I'm gonna give you a couple examples just to kind of like, oh, kind of like explain it in kind of a more concrete way. So in medieval history and early modern history, there are two examples, two good examples of the conflict between Ultramontaine Catholics and royal power, and they're both of them are in England. - Okay. - Not only other examples in France, but these two examples are much more well-known to an English-speaking audience. So the first is Henry II versus Thomas Beckett. - Okay. - Henry II is the father of Richard the Lionheart. - Yeah. - And he was in conflict with Thomas Beckett, who was the Archbishop of Canterbury. So the reasons for the conflict aren't really important here, but the most memorable part is Henry supposedly saying, won't someone rid me of this troublesome priest? - Okay. - And then two of his knights right off and hacked Thomas Beckett to death right at the altar at Canterbury Cathedral, where he'd been praying moments before the attack. - Wow. - Yeah, so that was a big deal because Thomas Beckett was trying to assert the power of the Catholic Church over the power that Henry thought that he should have. So that is the conflict between Ultramontaine and royal power. The second example is even more famous. This is Henry VIII versus Catholic Church. - Okay. - Most people know the story. Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife because he didn't have an heir and he wanted to marry Anne Boleyn. So he sort of started the Anglican Church. - Yes. - So the primacy of the Pope and Rome versus royal power wanting to do whatever they want with their country. And then sometimes it comes to conflict with the church. That just gives you a sense of how long these tensions have been going on. Basically, as long as I'm in kings and the Catholic Church. - The power struggle, really. - Yeah. So it's nothing new. Though in this case, the French king, Henry IV's toleration of the Huguenots and that he had actually been one before he converted to Catholicism in what is really believed to be more of an act of pragmatism than devotion versus the pro-jazuit pro-international Catholicism by Ultramontaine Catholics. And all this is gonna spill over to Acadia and arguably cause Port Royal to be turned to ash. - Oh, wow, okay. - So it really didn't help that in 1610, King Henry IV was assassinated by a Catholic zealot. - Oh, yeah. - So not great. Two of the key figures from the 1607 Acadia group were John de Putrenkor and his son Charles Bienkor. So there's Putrenkor and Bienkor. - Are those first names? - No. - But it was his son? - He's John de Bienkor de Putrenkor's sur de blah blah blah. - Okay, all right. - 'Cause this is the eldest son, he just gets called Bienkor. - Yeah, it would be more even more confusing if they're both called Putrenkor. - Yeah, and like his other son's called Jacques Salazar. - Okay. - I'm like, okay. I think it's from his mother's side. I don't know. There's like, dude, I'm just gonna leave. I was like trying to figure out who the hell is this Jacques Salazar guy? Is it, he's part of, it's not part of this story, but whatever. - Okay. - He's gonna simplify it. So they were most certainly in the Gallican faction. They had had many Huguenots with them on different voyages. So even though Putrenkor was Catholic and those in the Gallican side of things, they were much more willing to work with and support Huguenots because the greater strength of France meant not going to war with your fellow Frenchmen. - Yeah. - And many of the Huguenots were also very wealthy merchants. - Yeah, so well, that's handy. - So they were willing to put religious differences aside to make some money. Putrenkor was itching to get back to Acadia because he had grand dreams of making it a truly profitable seniorial colony. - What is a seniorial colony? - Like a lordship. - Okay. - Like a senior. So he went with his son Charles, A.K.A. B. Incor. And many others who had been with him in Acadia in the other years, including a man called Louis Ebert, who he's going to become quite important in Quebec as the first self-sustaining farmer in Quebec with his family. And he was a apothecary and just kind of this botanist. There's all this stuff. So I'm going to-- - If he was completely self-sustaining, you would have to know a lot. - Yeah, he built the Grismill too. - Oh, okay. - In Acadia. - Oh, interesting. - Yeah. So he's kind of a Renaissance man, kind of fellow. So anyways, I think I'm going to do a little bonus episode on him. - Oh, yeah. - Because he can't-- - It's pretty cool, yeah. - Yeah. He's pretty famous, definitely in like, I'm sure amongst Quebecois people. - Yeah. - Like there's statues and stuff of him. - Oh, yeah. - And Hebert is like, you've probably heard that name a lot. Okay. Two of the other men who become very important to the story are Claude D'Sien de La Tour and his son Charles de La Tour. So all these fellas, to a total of 23, arrived in Port Royal, to a hearty welcome from their old friend, Grand Chief Membroutu. - Yes. - So he was very happy to see many of his French friends, again, and asked after the ones who did not join this expedition. For example, Les Garbault, the guy who did a lot of writing. - Yeah. - He didn't come back. - Okay. - So, and it was very important to the king that this time the colonists started getting the indigenous population to convert to Christianity. In fact, that was one of the reasons that Dumont lost the monopoly. - Okay. That he didn't convert. - He didn't, he wasn't showing souls on the ledger. - And this was to get the sponsorship. It's not just the king. Like you need like sponsorship of the court almost. 'Cause, and then in order to get that, you'd have to satisfy the needs of a larger group of people. - Yeah, 'cause the king was playing in quite a little dangerous field, right? So he needed Catholic converts to show that he is a Catholic king. - Yes. - Of a Catholic country. So he needed to play the game. So, anyways, he's very pragmatic. So this time, Putracour came prepared to bring conversion results. He brought a priest absurdly named Jesse Flashe. - Yeah, okay. (laughs) - So he sounds like J.K. Rowling created a character. It was a priest and she wanted him to sound a little pervy. - Yeah. (laughs) - Anyhow, so Father Flashe came ready to baptize. Anyone who can get his hands on. Member to, he was totally up for this. So he and 20 members of his family were baptized in the spring of 1610. - Okay. - And then upwards of like 100 more were baptized over the summer. He's got a big family. - All right. - So he was all for this and said that he would make war with anyone who wouldn't join. But this didn't mean that he was filled with an evangelical zeal for Christ. This was because Member to was locked in on the power and prestige that his relationship with the French gave him. They had a very good relationship. And Putracour, he was a good friend to him, like truly. So he didn't see any reason to not join. He didn't really understand it, but he said sure. Sounds great. And it's like you said, like the commercial aspects of this are amazing. - And Les Garbo had tried educating them last time, just telling them about it, but which makes sense. 'Cause why wouldn't like, you got time. Winter's long. You spend a lot of time together. So there had been a meager attempt for now. This time, Father Fleche. - All right. (laughing) - It's like that was the name. But it wasn't all brotherly love between the French and the indigenous nations. So that summer, some leaders of the nearby Abunaki tribe came to Putracour with accusations of a terrible crime committed by Robert Gravey. He's the son of Champlain's buddy, Gravey DuPont. - Okay. - Remember him? He's a jolly fellow. - Oh yeah. - Who's like always with Champlain. He's just, he's in Quebec now. - Okay. - So they accused Robert Gravey of the rape and then the kidnapping and murder of one of the young women of their tribe. - Oh, hell. - So there is never even much of a show that he was protesting, that he was innocent in this. - Oh, okay. He's just like, yeah. - So Putracour arrested Gravey. But Gravey decided he didn't recognize Putracour's authority to try him. Long story short, Putracour decided there was gonna hold Gravey until they could send it back to France to be tried there. - Okay. - So they imprisoned Gravey on Putracour's ship, but he escaped not long after that and then just buggered off to live with the indigenous people. - Okay. - So he clearly had friends, but not with that tribe. - Not with that tribe, yeah. (laughs) - Anyways, Robert Gravey, he'd been coming to Canada for years, right? He had been with his father back in like 1604. Like he'd been there for like all those years he'd been around, right? So, and he'd been back and forth. He'd been probably to Tata Sack. So he knew his way around the landscape and the people as much as you can. So he's off. So be in court, he gets them back to France in 1610 to get with the furs that they'd acquired to trade and to get support for the colony. And then while he's there, he's given the vice-admiralty of the seas of New France. He's sure you're in charge of the seas of New France, according to the French king. And he had the support of the queen mother. Actually, no, it wasn't the French king. It was the queen mother. 'Cause the French king's dead by then. - Oh, okay. - Found out that he died. He was killed like on his way back. And he also got the support of a wealthy woman named Antoinette de Pont Marquise de Gershville. - It's a fancy name. - And this is very fancy lady with a bank. - Yeah. - And she is a huge fan of the Jesuits. - Okay, all right. - Yeah, big time team Jesuits. So the Marquise funded Biencourt voyage back to Acadia. - And that included two Jesuits. Father Pierre Bayard, an animal, Masset. - All right, is this the first time the Jesuits came to New France as we're calling it now? - Yeah, so Marquise, she's very much the ultramontane side, which is why she sent the Jesuits with Biencourt. And she's trying to exert control over the colony for her side, 'cause Putramcourt is on the Gallican side. - Oh, okay. - Right, so there's that tension happening. So Putramcourt wrote about this voyage. The voyage that he is not on, just to speak there, it's just that he wrote about it later when all this, there's this flurry that's gonna happen. That the Jesuits had harassed the Protestants that were on board, and this had been general jerks all right over. This may have been a smear campaign that Putramcourt was running in 1614, but the Jesuits whole thing is being militantly Catholic. - Yeah, it is their thing. So it's totally believable that they're total pricks this whole time telling the Calvinists, you're going to hell. - Yeah, were they the ones with the hair shirts and stuff like that, or was that something like that? - Yeah, I think so. And they're very well-educated. - Yes, yeah. Well, that was a big thing, right? Like the Jesuits schools and stuff like that. I mean, later on. - Yeah, but it was already starting. They were doing Jesuits schools in Europe, 'cause they had, the Jesuits started like, who I want to say 1540. - Okay. - Like it was pretty new, but they came on like gangbusters. So they arrived, and Byard isn't super impressed with the ad hoc nature of the baptisms that had happened, but he thought they're not truly educated in the faith enough to understand baptism, but he tolerated it. And honestly, that's totally fair. - Yeah. - Like he was, they were just throwing water at that spot. - Just, okay. - Okay, this is, you're all getting into river, all right. - Yeah. - So not long after his arrival, Byard goes with Putrenkor over to St. Croix Island to meet some Abenaki people, like to trade, or like a trading post there. While they're there, who pops up, Robert Grabbe. - Really? Okay, with the Abenaki. - Abenaki's quite a large, like it's like a, it's a overarching, then there's different ones, like the Passema Quate and like the other, under this kind of umbrella. It's like Algonquin. - Oh yeah, huge. - Okay, so Putrenkor seizes, fucker. (laughs) And wants to bring him to justice. But Byard decided that because Grabbe spoke the indigenous languages, that he would be useful to him. So he decided to broker a peace between Putrenkor and Grabbe, which ended with Grabbe giving an apology to Putrenkor and a promise of reform. - Okay. - Mm-hmm. - And I promise of reform that he's not going to be rapey and murdery anymore. - I am. (laughs) - Yeah. - Okay. So Putrenkor begrudgingly accepted this, but he was not happy with having his authority challenged again. And you'll notice that there were no amends made to the family of the young one murdered, just an apology from one Frenchman to another Frenchman. Because a priest believed that the perpetrator was going to be useful to him. - Yes. - Lovely. - Yeah. - So these simmering tensions just kept brewing. Putrenkor planned to transfer control of his, the colony to his son, Bienkor, and returned to France. And Byard did not like this. Since he preferred Grabbe to take over the colony. And he was unhappy that Putrenkor did not consult him in this decision. - Oh, wow. - Yeah. - Like he's bulsy. - He's, uh, he's got. (laughs) - He's got a pair. - Yeah. - So Byard clearly had no issues with imposter syndrome. He'd been in New France for about two months, and he wanted to be the one to decide who ran it. In the late summer of 1611, member two fell ill. Father Byard nursed him, and did believe that he had converted, but he was still critical of fleshy. So many of the people had been baptized, weren't truly understanding what it meant. And therefore were not true Christians. When member two died in September of 1611, he had told Byard that he wanted to be buried in consecrated ground. He'd previously wanna be buried among his people, but it sounds like Byard may have had some influence in this change. Honestly, I understand that 'cause like he, Byard truly believes that this is the right thing to do, and he's nursing him through grossness. - Yeah, like significant sickness in his trial. - Yeah, and he wanted his soul to be saved. - Mm-hmm. - So some of member two's people wanted him to be buried with their people, and Byard took their side. So this caused a great deal of tension between Byard and being core. Being core suggested that Byard just consecrate the whole burial ground. (both laughing) - This would do it. - That was not a possibility, as it would therefore have had non-Christians in consecrated ground. - Oh, yeah, okay. - As a big no-no. - Yep. - So all of this had the colony very tense for the winter of 1611 to 1612. So Putin Kour had actually gone back to France in August, 1611. So that's why he left being his son in charge, being core in charge. So, and he spent the winter getting more funding or renewal of funding, or kind of kind of doing a diplomatic dance between him and the Marquise, 'cause they both wanted control over Acadia. The Marquise wanted assurances of more converts. So in exchange for more financial support, she sent one of her agents, the Jesuit Gilbert du Tette, along with Putin Kour's agent on the voyage back to France in January 1612. This was an even crappier voyage. - That's cold, yeah. - Yeah, and I'm sure the winter didn't help, 'cause the crappiness was the people. - Oh, yeah. (both laughing) - So Putin Kour didn't go. - Oh, okay. - It was just his agent and-- - Yeah, did he write about it afterwards again, 'cause he just turned it out? - Sure did. (both laughing) - So by the time they got back to Acadia, everyone was so pissed off with each other. So the men aboard accused a Tette of being miserly with the supplies because he was saving them for the mission. And they also accused a Tette of saying that the assassination of King Henry IV was a good thing for Christianity, which fed into the conspiracy theory that was very hot at the time, that the Jesuits were behind the assassination. - Mm-hmm. - That's an extremely inflammatory thing to say. - Oh, yeah. - So they arrived in Acadia, everyone's just raging at each other. They're going back and forth by art and being Kour are trying to mediate all this, and it doesn't go well. So being Kour decides that he is going to send a message back to France with a formal charge that the Tette had said that the murder of the king was a blessing, and the Jesuits were not having this. So they snuck back onto the ship and they were hiding so that they could be taken back to France. - Oh. - Yeah, but of course being Kour found this out. - Yeah, it's like 30 guys there. (laughs) - They were like 30 Jesuits? I thought they were only three. - No, no, total, like total dudes. - Yes, yes. - That's all there are. - Yeah, yeah, and there's three of them, right? - Yeah. - Yeah, three Jesuits, yeah. - There might have been more, but there's like three that we know of. - It's hard to hide three full grown men on it. The ships weren't that big. - No, no. So this leads to a farcical situation with Bayard Masset and Duterte hiding and Bien Kour coming aboard to take them off the ship. So Masset goes to talk to Bien Kour and it doesn't really help matters because he tells Bien Kour that he had more authority in Acadia than him, basically because he's a Jesuit. - Yeah, okay. (laughs) - Good job, buddy. Really calm that down. So your rest, Masset, Bien Kour goes back on the ship to get Bayard and Bayard goes nuts. And he's telling them that anyone touches him, they will immediately be excommunicated. - Okay. - Like it's just so ridiculous. Don't touch me. You're going to be excommunicated. Anyways, Bien Kour doesn't give a crap. - Yeah. - He hauls his ass out and basically imprisons them. And yeah, he gets excommunicated. - Oh, he does. - Yeah, of course he does. 'Cause he's, and there was some, there was another guy who helped 'cause they got them out. And Bayard is like, "You touched me, you're out." - Wow, okay. So he like, what does it mean to be excommunicated though? Doesn't that have to be like, like who's on who's authority is it? - Well, it's a priest. - Is it like a pope or just any priest? - Any priest, I guess. - Really? Okay. It just, it's just any priest can do it to anyone. - Yeah. - At any time. Okay. - I don't know. Just, I'm just picturing the whole situation. - Yeah. - It's so ridiculous. - So ridiculous. - 'Cause Bayard is like, I don't know, 40. - Yeah. - And Bienkor is like 22. And he's, he's just hauling this older guy out. - Yeah. - Anyways, later Bayard wrote that poor oil had become a den of thieves, a nest of brigands, a haven for parasites, a refuge for rogues, a hot bit of scandal and all sorts of wickedness. - Okay. - Which is great. - That's, that's eloquent. - I love it. - Good for you. - What, you've written that in French originally? - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah. - I mean, maybe did it latin too just for extra spice, but it would have been French. Where does get back to France because of the traders going back forth? And the Marquise takes the side of the Jesuits and doesn't send any more supplies that summer. So a terrible year. She did send a ship the next year in 1613 with the express intent to rescue the Jesuits and start a new colony. - Oh, okay. - Yeah. - And so Marquise sent another fantastically named fella, René Lacoc de Sasse. (laughing) - Lacoc de Sasse. (laughing) - All right. So you sent it with the ship to start the new colony, you know, with none of those anti-jesuit, Protestant loving sinners, whatever. So Lacoc, no, sorry. Lacoc de Sasse, you know, whatever. - I don't know which is better. (laughing) - Well, Lacoc de Sasse. - De Sasse. - Yeah. - Let's go with that. I don't know, maybe you like being called Lacoc. (laughing) Anyway, so they arrive and they basically whisk the Jesuits away and sail off to start a new colony on an island off the coast of Maine that they call St. Severe. So things go from bad to worse for the French here because done, done, done. The English are coming. - Yo, okay. - Yeah. - Lacoc de Sasse knew that they were British ships patrolling the area or that there was a risk of them, but he did nothing to set up any defenses on the island. So while the French are doing God knows what on the island, they're there for a couple of weeks. They're doing nothing, anything but setting up fortifications, which is ridiculous because there were indigenous nations there that were not necessarily friendly to the French because the French were more aligned in their mind with the magma. - Yeah. - Which is just, it's just foolishness. While they're doing that, the English were basically hunting them. So by this time, the English had set up their colony in Jamestown, Virginia. So that whole Aquana story and all that. So they had also more or less blade claimed like the East Coast. - Mm-hmm, the entire East Coast. - Yeah, yeah, sure. It was all mine. - North to south, all the way up and down. - And the governor of Jamestown, Thomas Dale, had heard that the French were encroaching on what he believed to be English territory. So he decided to stick a nasty piece of work named Samuel Argyll on them. So Argyll previously claimed a fame. He had abducted Pocahontas and held her hostage in exchange for some English prisoners. - Okay. - So cool to, but you know, the Jamestown colony was not really a place for the sensitive sort this time. So he may have just been like a regular. - Just a regular rough guy and just. - Doing what he needed to do, but I'm sure I would consider him beastly. So Argyll sailed up the coast looking for any signs of a French colony. And he came upon a group of Abenaki and they mistook Argyll for a French guy. So Argyll played along to get them to give him information. He may have even spoken French 'cause he was probably an educated man. So Abenaki sent Argyll in the direction of who they thought were the French at St. Cervair. - Okay. - Like yeah, your bodies are this way. So there is an alternative theory that the Abenaki knew how long did they weren't French and then sent the English on to clear out the French so they could score a blow against the Migma who had developed such a strong relationship with them, but honestly. - It's not a bad theory, but yeah, it's possible. - Because it's, they were all in play here, right? They're all the chiefs of their territory. - It's maybe. - So anyways, Argyll came to find the French at St. Cervair and they were just kind of hanging on the beach and stuff. I don't know what they were doing. - The French were just like. - Building St. castles, I don't know. (laughing) - Just chilling. - Just completely unprepared. - Not even like. - Warships roll it up. - Yeah, and so Argyll's ship comes along and basically snuck up on them and then just blasted the guns like just. - Oh wow. - Yeah, the tent was killed. Not sure how many other were killed, but it did not take long for the whole group to surrender. Argyll sent half of them adrift in two open boats and took the other half with him back to Jamestown. Father Byard was one of the ones that taken to Jamestown and he was interrogated there. Honestly, can't remember what happened to the other people. I think they were rescued by some French ships. Let's assume that they got rescued 'cause that's less shitty. So back in Jamestown, there was talk of hanging him but Governor Dale decided to send Byard with Argyll to find and destroy Port Royal. According to Byard, he did not help Argyll find Port Royal but Putrenkor wrote in his later account of the whole affair that he wasn't at, that Byard definitely did. - Okay, yeah. Putrenkor doesn't like this guy. - No, no, no. - 'Cause Beancor doesn't. - But that 100% could have been a total character assassination at that point 'cause he wasn't even there. He's just hearing this stuff or could he just be making him stories? - Yeah, because Byard, he wrote his own account of this, which is opposite. - Oh yeah. - So it's also entirely possible that Argyll just used the charts and vlogs taken from La Cessé's ship but who knows? What is certain is that on November 1st, 1613, Argyll arrived at Port Royal and found it completely empty. - Oh. - Yeah, Beancor was off with the Big Ma. - Completely empty and nobody there. Wow. - Yeah, left nobody on guard. These guys are not good at this. - Oh my goodness, yes. - Like not a single person, just like. - No. - So Argyll looted the place. He must have been there for like a long time looting because he took livestock and he even took the nails at a floorboards and hinges off of doors. - Wow, okay. - Yeah. That's a long time to just like leave livestock as well. That's weird, right? - Yeah, you're supposed to look after those. They don't do well. So anyways, long enough to take the nails out of the floorboards and hinges off of the doors. So yeah, they killed some of the livestock and they took some of them 'cause they couldn't take them all. Argyll was basically set to leave and Beancor returned. At this point, it was all pretty civilized. Like there wasn't a battle or anything like that. - They're just like, we took your shit. - Oh, and they set the whole place on fire. - Oh, wow, okay. - Yeah, they burned it all down. - So they took all the nails and the not-- - So I'm sure that's why Beancor went back 'cause he probably saw the smoke. - Oh yeah. - The only thing that was kept was like some, a couple barns and a mill, the mill. I don't know why that was not burned. They even did a super shitty thing. There was like a stone that they had like etched the names of Putrenkor and Demal and whatever. And they like defaced it. (laughing) - You weren't ever here. - Shitty thing to do, whatever. - All right, so Beancor was furious with Byard and accused him of leading the English to Port Royal. Beancor wanted Byard released to him so he could hang him for his crimes. That Argyll was not doing that 'cause he's his prisoner, whatever. But Argyll had done when he came to accomplish and he set off back to Jamestown. So there was multiple ships here. Argyll made it back to Jamestown, but the ship that Byard was on did not make it back. That ship was blown way off course by a storm and they took refuge in the Azores, which is off the coast of Portugal. Like it's like, you look on the map, it's like, they're like, "Where the hell are the Azores?" And they are way, way, way, way, way, there's like these little specks off of Portugal. - Wow. - Yeah. - That's like... - Yeah. And then they made their way to Wales. - Okay. - African Wales. And then asked for the French priests, they were able to get word to the countrymen and the French ambassador negotiated their passage back to France. So they got back to France. 'Cause there were, who knows what was gonna be happened. - Yeah. - 'Cause the English really don't like Jesuits either. - Oh, okay. - They're really super don't. Like basically if at different times, depends on who was king or queen of the time. If a Jesuit was found, they got. - Instantly killed. - Yeah, killed. They're done. So anyways, Byard got back to France. - Happy days for him. So, Poojukor went back to the burnt husk that was Port Royal in 1614 and found most of them like starving. - Oh, okay. Half the livestock were taken. They had to rebuild everything. - Yeah. - Yeah. A silver mill, I guess. - Yeah, but it was also winter, right? Like this happened in November. - Oh yeah, rough timing. - And he took most of the colonists back with him. So his son, Bien Corr, he stayed in Acadia. He might have had a magma wife. And he was quite at home there. Like that was, he was fine. Living amongst the magma. And he didn't really set up, they'd rebuilt some of the buildings. Him and Charles de la Tour. - Okay. - 'Cause they were both young men, they were like same age. But they kind of just lived amongst the magma. - Yeah, it makes more sense. - Yeah. And he, Bien Corr set up quite a successful fishing and birth-rating business over the next 10 years before he died sometime in 1623. - Okay. - Just being, just 17th century. - Yeah, just like the bee sting. - Yeah. - Yeah, so Charles de la Tour, he stuck around and he's gonna play a big part in the Acadian story, but we will have to leave that for a little while. I was gonna do a part two of this next week. - Okay. - But the book I ordered is held up by the postal strike. - Yes, bummer. (laughs) - Which is fine, it's fine. So when we come back to Acadia, things are gonna get even worse, even messier than you can believe it. So some may say it's a stretch, but there is an Acadian civil war on the horizon. So Charles de la Tour is right in the middle of it. There's gonna be connections to New England. There are players in this story, but we're gonna have to wait on that. So next time, we're gonna have a much closer look at the Jesuits and really see what they're up to and come back. Things go better, ish, worse, I don't know. Things are like, it's gonna be rough. - Yeah, so I guess we're, and then we'll get back to the Acadian civil war at some point when we get the source material. - Yeah. - Yeah, that's fine. - Yeah, it's like an outer print book. And so I had to find it and it's in the mail. So it'll get here when it gets here. - Yeah, it's okay, we can do a little bit of bouncing around. - Yeah, it's fine. But honestly, it's gonna be fine because part of that story involves the English, spoiler conquering Quebec. (laughing) - Spoiler. - It happened four years ago, it's not a spoiler. - Yeah. - It's like, oh, I'm like, it's... Anyways, something that I had never heard of before I started doing all this research, but anyways, 'cause they hit Acadia too. - Yep. - So it's fine. There's so much to cover. Yeah, we're gonna be doing Jesuits coming up. We're gonna be covering a chamber lei. We're gonna be getting into the horrors of the plagues that befall the Wendat and a Gonquin and in you, all those horrible, horrible things. But important to talk about and interesting. And then we're gonna get on to Jaundry Brayboof and what happens to him. - Well, don't forget, if you like the show, please five star reviews and leave a comment for us. Let us know what you thought of everything. And then yeah, sign up for the Patreon, even if it's the free one, we'd really appreciate it. - Yeah. - We're good. (upbeat music)