Acadia was the first permanent settlement. Despite the burning of Port Royal in 1613 some of the French stayed and were present when the Scots settled the area in the 1620s. Also it should be noted that Champlain did not head up and found the settlement at Port Royal. He was with Pierre Dugua in 1605 at the founding.
Hey@kelvin britz The key word you have missed in the post is 'permanent'. The Norse did not establish a permanent settlement in Newfoundland. L'Anse aux Meadows dates to around 1000 A.D. but was only used for a short period. There are no other known Norse settlements in Canada.
I knew that Norse explorers were the first to arrive on canadian coasts, but I didn't think that italian explorers working for Portugal were the next europeans to arrive.
In the video the narrator does not say Italian explorers were sailing for the Portuguese. Lavrador, Fagundes and the Corte-Real brothers were Portuguese. The Portuguese and their Basque neighbours were the best sailors in the world at the time.
Evrything is great, a good educational video. You should use voice that clear and lound instead. There is app for voice and language. This voice does not fit.
@kelvin britz The Inuit are the ancestors of the Thule people. The Thule are from western Alaska and began to spread eastward around the tenth-century. They eventually displace the Dorset people who inhabited the Eastern Arctic.
@kelvin britz Amerindians also known as First Nations you mean not Indians and they were in Canada before Inuits, Europeans, Metis, Far Easterners, Africans, Middle Easterners, and others were
@kelvin britz From Asia to Alaska and then out across North and South America. They came earlier than the Dorset and Thule people. All Métis people of course arise well after contact with Europeans as they are a mixed people who blended cultural ways to create a new people.
Insufficient documented record or artifacts to credit Eric Leaf with anything to do with the continental Americas. That point needs to recorded regarding Eric Leaf claims
Leif Erikson* And we do have archaeological evidence and several artifacts, as well as documented record. The record is the sagas themselves, documenting the finds and expedition, even if somewhat exaggerated. There are different areas with worn rivets that shows activity with boats. Bronze tools and items were found on site, which is an regional anomaly, with multiple buildings shaped uniquely to serve as likely workshops and metal working. Carbon dating, tree ring dating, these determined it was settled around ~1010 AD. In fact, this settlement is not a wide subject of debate, it’s commonly acknowledged as undeniable proof of Norse settlements in Canada.
Hey@@garyclothier9914 The discussion in this particular thread, which you started, is with respect to a 1398 landing in Nova Scotia by Scots; not Norse nearly four centuries earlier.
Native Americans settled the Americas first. They came from Asia, which lends credence to the notion that the Americas can be legitimately claimed by east and north central Asians.
Had us in the first half, not gonna lie. We’re genetically, linguistically and culturally distinct from East Asians. Native Americans are the only ones with any credence to legitimately claim the Americas, imo.
Yeah but they don't count. We only care about European settlers. This video is incorrect anyway. Irish monks were the first European people to find America.
