The letter says that Port-Royal was critical to the founding of Canada and its further exploration and settlement – “with Annapolis Royal inheriting Port-Royal’s settlement legacy and becoming the cradle of our nation.” “A supportive and congenial relationship that allowed colonists to entrust the care of the Habitation at Port-Royal in 1607 – during an absence to bring more colonists from France.” “Port Royal was a place of first contact, forever marked by the welcoming of these Europeans in peace and friendship by Grand Chief Henri Membertou and the Mi’kmaq people,” the letter says. The four collaborated on the letter to Lacroix which notes that it is accepted fact that Port-Royal was the first permanent settlement. The first episode skips Samuel de Champlain’s settlement at Port-Royal in 1605 and claims the French cartographer’s habitation at Quebec three years later was the first permanent European settlement in what is now Canada.Īnnapolis Royal Mayor Bill MacDonald took exception to the CBC claim March 27, a day after that episode aired, and was soon supported by Premier Stephen McNeil, West Nova Member of Parliament Colin Fraser, and Annapolis County Warden Timothy Habinski. The series in question is the 10-part docu-drama Canada: The Story of Us. “CBC promotes its mini-series as our nation’s history – but it’s really just CBC’s story and not the story of us.” “Episode One of the CBC mini-series effectively erases the collective early history of a whole province and its people – including the Mi’kmaq and the Acadians,” the letter says. The April 2 letter’s undersigned don’t mince words. If he hasn’t already received it, Hubert Lacroix can expect a letter of seven paragraphs explaining why a Premier, a mayor, a warden, and Member of Parliament are upset with the public broadcaster about a mini series – and what they want done.
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