Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons
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Pierre Dugua de Mons was a French merchant, explorer and colonizer. A Calvinist, he was born in the Château de Mons, in Royan, Saintonge and founded the first permanent French settlement in Canada. He was Lieutenant General of New France from 1603 to 1610.
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![Bust of Pierre Dugua de Mons in Quebec City by Hamilton MacCarthy; installed on July 3, 2007,[1] it is an exact copy of the one in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Pierre_Dugua_de_Mons_-_02.jpg/1280px-Pierre_Dugua_de_Mons_-_02.jpg)
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Pierre Dugua de Mons was a French merchant, explorer and colonizer. A Calvinist, he was born in the Château de Mons, in Royan, Saintonge and founded the first permanent French settlement in Canada. He was Lieutenant General of New France from 1603 to 1610. He travelled to northeastern North America for the first time in 1599 with Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit.
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