7/14/11 - Port-Royal National Historic Site

Wow....it's been nine days since I did a post...I just keep getting further & further behind. We are having a down day (August 8th) so maybe I'll get a few postings done....if I don't fall asleep...we are exhausted...we sure don't have the energy we did on our Alaska Trip in 2007! Well anyway enough complaining about getting OLD! The Port-Royal Habitation is a reconstruction of a small French compound begun in 1605. It was home to one of the earliest European settlements on this continent. Mi'kmaw people lived along these shores for centuries and it was here that the French and the Mi'kmaw formed an enduring friendship and alliance. The Habitation survived until 1613 when it was destroyed in an attach by Captain Samuel Argall of Virginia.