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No. Jacques Cartier twice overwintered in Québec, and Samuel de Champlain built a trading post at Québec city and chiefly founded New France in 1608.

As an English navigator-explorer, Henry Hudson visited various nearby areas, including the Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay, which bear his name. He sought the Northwest Passage, which his contemporaries presumed would offer a quick, cheap route to Asia. He worked for Dutch East India Company when he traveled to the eastern United States; hence the Dutch claim to New Netherland colony (now New York State).

The English and French then rivaled bitterly and fought numerous wars over centuries against one another.

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