Port Royal, Nova Scotia

Port Royal, Nova Scotia

This article is about the Canadian town of Port Royal, an early French colony. For information on the former Jamaican capital see: Port Royal. For information on the French convent see: Port-Royal.

After an attempted settlement on Saint Croix Island in the summer of 1604, the first French colony in North America moved to Port Royal in the spring after enduring a harsh winter and deaths due to disease.

The founding of Port Royal (French: Port-Royal) by French explorer Samuel de Champlain is considered by some historians to be the first permanent settlement by Europeans in North America, founded three years before Jamestown in Virginia, U.S.

Port Royal is located in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia approximately 200 km northwest of Halifax along the Bay of Fundy.

(Much more detail is needed: History of Acadia, New France, the first winter.)