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which supplied the means for the formation of settlements made under 

 the command of Governors appointed by the King. The first of these 

 settlements wag the carefully-planned colony on St. Croix (Dochet) 

 Island, founded by de Monts in 1604, which was expected to form the 

 capital of Acadia. An abnormally severe winter led to its removal 

 the next year to Port Eoyal (Annapolis), which thus became, and, except 



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for a temporarv interval, I(i90-1T()(), when it was on the Si. John, 

 remained for over a century the capital of the French and the centre of 

 their operations in Acadia. The first settlement to be formed under 

 this system within the present Province of New Brunswick, aside from 

 the temporary winter village of Emenenic on Catons Island and a minor 

 fishing cstaldishment formed in ir.23 on Miscou Ti^land, was the strongly 

 fortified trading post Iniilt at the nioiilh of the St. .Tolm in or prior to 

 1632 l)y tlio Sieur do l^a Tour, wbich, granted lum l)y tlic Company of 



