Though fairly well provided in some ways yet the winter proved so trying that out of the number of less than eighty, nearly one-half died.

The winter was so long, weary and deadly, that in the spring the survivors of the Colony were moved to Port Royal in Acadia and the Ste.

Croix was given up.

This was surely dramatic; this was tragic indeed.

But in the fourth year of this Century, the Tercentenary of this event was celebrated in Annapolis and St.John, as the writer himself beheld, and the shouts and applause of gathered thousands made a great and patriotic epic.
Again four years after De Monts, when knowledge of climate and conditions had become known to the French pioneers, Samuel de Champlain wintered with his crew and a few settlers on the site of Old Quebec, on the St.Lawrence.Discontent and dissension led to rebellion, and blood was shed in the execution of the plotters.