Map marks early view of Canada

Marc Lescarbot’s Nova Francia… of 1609 is an account of French settlements in North America and what we now think of as Nova Scotia and Canada. It predates the more famous first accounts of Champlain’s voyages and discoveries by three years.

Published to encourage settlement in the New World, it appeared in an English translation by Pierr…

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