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Rh Bay, where the colonists passed their first winter.

De Monts granted Port Royal and neighbouring territory to Poutrincourt, one of his companions, who seeded a farm on the present site of Annapolis fort, and in 1607, the year Jamestown was settled, took samples of the grain to Paris to demonstrate the fertility of the land.

The successful establishment of these first Acadian settlements incited further voyages by the English, who thus far had made no attempts to colonise their possessions in North America.

In 1613 a British force captained by Samuel Argall of Jamestown destroyed the Port Royal fort. The French were scattered for a time to the outer limits of Acadian territory, and Scotch colonists under Sir William Alexander settled, after 1621, in the country which the new governor proclaimed should be called Nova Scotia. The present province of New Brunswick which, with Gaspé Peninsula, also came under this grant, was named New Alexandria, but was politically a part of New Scotland. Lord Ochiltree, in 1629, brought other Scotch settlers to Cape Breton Island. About this time and during the next forty years, the expeditions of Claude and Charles La Tour, Isaac de Razilly, d'Aunay de Charnisay, Nicolas Denys and Villebon arrived in the New World. The younger La Tour was father of the first European settlement in New Brunswick (1631).