{"id":383,"date":"2011-04-07T19:55:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T19:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/nouvelle-france\/"},"modified":"2013-02-27T16:34:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:34:15","slug":"founding-sites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/colonies-and-empires\/founding-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Founding Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barren Northern Terra Nova or Enchanted Southern Islands? <\/em><\/h3>\n

France\u2019s adventure in the Americas began in the 16th century, when King Fran\u00e7ois I commissioned an Italian, Giovanni da Verrazano, to explore the coasts of the continent discovered by Christopher Colombus at the end of the previous century. For nearly 100 years, the French embarked on several endeavours to settle the continent of the Americas, which as Raymonde Litalien relates here.<\/p>\n

Aerial view of the excavations at Cartier Roberval Site<\/strong>
Only after several false starts do the French succeed in establishing solid colonies in North America. The site of the colony of Charlesbourg-Royal or France-Roy on the promontory of Cap Rouge near Quebec represents the earliest of these attempts, in 1541-1543. Since 2005, the site has slowly been revealing the remains of this short-lived colony. Aerial view of excavation work at the Cartier-Roberval archaeological site, taken in the fall of 2007.
Photo: Pierre Lahoud<\/div>\">\"Aerial<\/a>

Aerial view of the excavations at Cartier Roberval Site<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

After explaining what these explorers hoped to discover, the author draws a portrait of the various sites of French founding settlements in the Americas, from the first, short-lived colony of Charlesbourg-Royal (1541\u20131543), to the founding of Qu\u00e9bec in 1608. She thereby reveals the astonishing destinies of communities that while often driven by very different motivations, nevertheless all wished to found a new country that would resemble yet diverge profoundly from their native land: a new France!<\/p>\n

The story transports the reader from Acadia to the beaches of the bay of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where the French briefly tried to compete with Portuguese colonists, as well as to Florida, to Fort Caroline, a colony that met with a particularly tragic fate.<\/p>\n

This fascinating era of the first attempts at settlement also saw the discovery of the Amerindians, the first encounters between Europeans and the peoples of the Americas, their early trading, and their first misunderstandings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barren Northern Terra Nova or Enchanted Southern Islands? France\u2019s adventure in the Americas began in the 16th century, when King Fran\u00e7ois I commissioned an Italian, Giovanni da Verrazano, to explore the coasts of the continent discovered by Christopher Colombus at the end of the previous century. For nearly 100 years, the French embarked on several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":298,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":64,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/383\/revisions\/765"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}