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c. and Inuit (Eskimo) inhabit what is now Canada .

grants a Fur-trading Monopoly in the Gulf Of St. Lawrence to a group of French merchants.

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1603 - 15 - Samuel De Champlain 's (c.1567-1635) voyages in the Northeast lead to contacts with many Algonquian and Iroquoian tribes. He explores the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River for France .

(later Nova Scotia ) and at Quebec City on the St. Lawrence.

. He serves as an interpreter between the French and the Micmac Indians of the area.

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on the Bay Of Fundy , Nova Scotia (later to be named Annapolis Royal by the British), the first permanent French settlement in North America.

under John Smith , leading to extensive contact with the tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy.

s, who are amenable to Missionary activities and acts as the principal suppliers of furs. This alliance, however, antagonizes the Iroquoian Confederacy, traditional rivals of the Huron and suppliers of furs to the Dutch in New Amsterdam .

is established as a fur post by Champlain and French colonists, creating in effect the first permanent European settlement.

1609 : The settlement of Quebec owes much to Samuel de Champlain, an explorer hired by the sieur de Monts, who became the foremost champion of French colonization.

against the Iroquois at Lake Champlain . He fires on the Iroquois, setting a pattern of Indian relationships.