Roberval took his 400 colonists, many of whom were convicts,
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Jacques Cartier had been sent to establish a colony in North America. He found a suitable place to build a fort that he named Charlesbourg-Royal, present day Cap Rouge, just above Stadacona. Gardens were planted and construction started. While waiting for Jean-Fran?ois de La Roche de Roberval to arrive and take over the colony, Cartier went up the river as far as the Lachine Rapids where he was shown quantities of rocks that he assumed were gold and silver. In a hurry to report back to France,
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Roberval and his people settled into the colony and as fall neared he sent two of his ships back to France for supplies. It was a bitter winter and 50 of the settlers died of scurvy. Roberval ruled the colony with an iron hand,
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Modern archeologists find a trove of artifacts at the site of Cartier's abandoned colony.