But, now, they work in the shade of a tarp where they weigh the berries picked by others. Frankie (left) and Lalo (right) Vargas kept busy Wednesday, Aug. 19, buying and loading saw palmetto berries from local pickers that will be trucked to Fort Myers then sold. Photo by Okeechobee News/Eric Kopp.
Quick Answer. The French established their first permanent settlement in the New World in what is known today as Quebec. This city became one of the cities within New France, an area of explored and claimed land for France in the New World. Samuel de Champlain was the French explorer who found Quebec and established it as a city for France in June of 1608.
Behind the Notre-Dame de Quebec Basilica, north of the Chateau Frontenac, in Quebec City; there is a monument to Louis Hebert, who is considered to be the first European settler in Canada. He set up house with his family in the spring of 1617, four years before the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts. When his daughter, Guillemette, wed Guillaume Couillard in 1621; it was the first recorded marriage in Canada.