Winston Climbs Greenlaw Mountain

Saint Croix Island, long known to locals as Dochet Island, is a small uninhabited island in Maine near the mouth of the Saint Croix River that forms part of the International Boundary separating Maine (USA) from New Brunswick(Canada). ---------- On a fur trading expedition in 1604 led by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts, Samuel de Champlain had to find a site for winter settlement. After exploring possible sites in the Bay of Fundy, Champlain selected Saint Croix Island in the St. Croix River as the site of the expedition's first winter settlement. ---------- The following spring, Champlain and François Gravé Du Pont, moved the settlement to a new location on the southern shore of the Bay of Fundy called Port-Royal. During the winter more than half the settlers had perished due to a "land-sickness" believed to be scurvy. ---------- Champlain remained for three years, exploring the Atlantic coast from the Bay of Fundy down to Cape Cod. ---------- The Island is now Deemed a International Historic Site and access is not permitted. ---------- On his third trip in 1608, Champlain founded a settlement and trading post along the St. Lawrence River that eventually became the city of Quebec. It was the first permanent white settlement in Canada.