Champlain steps dramatically into a complex world of ancient kinship networks, complex diplomacy, and a long simmering war when he founds the city of Quebec in 1608.
We take a look at the Beothuk people in this episode from their ancient beginnings on the island of Newfoundland to their demise through disease, starvation, and murder. It is a tragic story of the effects of colonization on a small population on an unforgiving land.
In this episode, we explore the early French attempts to settle in what would become Acadia, from Saint Croix to the more promising shores of Port-Royal.
There had been a few men with colonial ambitions from France but they had all ended in failure. Champlain starts his colonial career as an observer ready to learn some lessons from his predecessors.
Today's episode is a discussion of the violence in both the Wendat world and Europe. We will be talking about the Mourning Wars between the Wendat and Haudenosaunee and the scale of the violence of the wars waged in Europe.
Marguerite de la Rocque de Roberval's story of being marooned on an island off of Newfoundland in 1542 is something that amazes everyone who hears it but she keeps getting shunted to a footnote in the story of the early colonization of Canada.
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