Sentence examples for French settlement from inspiring English sources

On venturing farther northward along the coast, Argall discovered a new French settlement at St . Sauveur

The original French settlement, founded in 1619, was called Nepisiguit and then St. Peters.

French explorers called it Île du Castor (for the castors [beavers] found there), and a French settlement (abandoned 1603) was one of the earliest in the area.

In a few areas of old French settlement (as in the Windsor area), the long, narrow fields typical of French Canadian strip farming may be seen.

Concerts and other entertainment, culminating on Aug. 15, the 400th anniversary of the first permanent French settlement in North America, with Tintimarre and its costumed revelers.

From the beginning of French settlement, political debate among the white settlers revolved around the rights of residents to administer their own affairs without endangering the flow of French financial aid.

The English conquest of India lessened the commercial activity of the French settlements.

French settlements were soon established at Fort Maurepas, Mobile, Biloxi, Fort Rosalie, and New Orleans.

Many native individuals became fur trappers, trade middlemen, or guides, while others, particularly women, focused on providing food to the French settlements.

In Quebec the loyalists simply crossed the new frontier and settled along the St. Lawrence River to the west of the old French settlements.

Founded about 1760 by shipwrecked French seamen, it is one of the province's oldest French settlements and was named for the bay, which may have derived its name from a French nautical term, caraque, meaning "carrack," or "large galleon".