Acadia was definitely more than a simple colony of New France
The Ancient Greek name and the Road to Peace
Today’s article is more focused on a regional basis and analyses the origin of a French colony in the northeastern part of North America, Acadia.
The early history of the particular colony is of utmost importance in understanding, once again, the incentives of the European settlers and the turbulence at the beginning of New France, which had a great impact on the indigenous people as well.
New France establishes a Colony
Acadia was the first territory that the French occupied, located near the Grand Banks fisheries region and closest to Europe by any other land of the Americas.
There could be found Portuguese or British people in the region but they hadn’t managed to establish widely-known colonies in North America, mainly because they would be unnecessary.
The French, on the contrary, deemed it important to establish a colony in the region and after occupying the Sable islands (1599), Tadoussac (1600), and Ste.Croix (1604).
After all, they established a colony in Acadia and from there, expanded towards the territories of Castine, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Island, making it to the…
