trading post was established at Tadoussac, but only five of the sixteen settlers survived the winter and returned home that summer. In 1604, the first year-round permanent settlement was founded by Samuel de Champlain at Île-Saint-Croix on Baie Française (Bay of Fundy), which was moved to Port-Royal in 1605. In 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Québec with 28 men of whom 20 died from lack of food and from scurvy the first winter. New France – (1534–1763) – List of French forts in North America Acadie – (1604–1713) Canada (New France) – (1608–1763) Terre Neuve (Newfoundland) – (1610–1713) Île Royale (Cape Breton)—(1713–1763) Isle Saint-Jean (P.E.I.) – (1713–1763) Pays d'en Haut (1639–1763) Illinois Country (1673–1717) British North America British colonization of the Americas (including colonization sponsored by both the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland before the 1707 Acts of Union which created the Kingdom of Great Britain) began in the late 16th century and reached its peak when colonies had been established throughout the Americas. The Kingdom of Great Britain acquired the French colony of Acadia in 1713 and then Canada, New France. The United Kingdom also claimed the west coast of North America: indirectly via (from 1804) the North West Company and (after 1821) Hudson's Bay Company licenses west of the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia and New Caledonia fur districts, most of which were jointly claimed by the United States, which called it the Oregon Country, from 1818 until the 49th parallel as the international boundary was extended west of the Rockies by the Oregon Treaty of 1846. The Colony of Vancouver Island, founded in 1849, and the Colony of British Columbia, founded in 1858, were combined in 1866 with the name Colony of British Columbia until joining Confederation in 1871. British Columbia also was expanded with the addition what had been the Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands and also most of the Stikine Territory in 1863 and, upon joining Confederation, with the addition of the Peace River Country, formerly part of the Northwest Territories. British America (Colonial America) – (1583–1783) St. John's, Newfoundland (from 1583, English) British Arctic Territories — (from 16th century) Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland — (from 1610, English) Avalon, Newfoundland — (from 1610, English) Renews, Newfoundland – (from 1615, English) Bristol's Hope, Newfoundland — (from 1618, English) Nova Scotia – (1621–2, Scottish) Cape Breton – (1625, Scottish) Saint John, New Brunswick