Poutrincourt << poo tran KOOR, >> , Jean de Biencourt de (1557-1615), Baron de St. Just, a French colonizer, helped found Acadia , a region in eastern Canada and northern Maine. He went to Canada in 1604 with Pierre du Gua, Sieur de Monts . Poutrincourt received a grant of land and helped develop a colony at Port-Royal . In 1606, he accompanied Samuel de Champlain in his exploration of the Bay of Fundy . In 1607, Poutrincourt and the other colonists went back to France . He returned to Acadia in 1610 and lived at Port-Royal until 1613, when English settlers from Virginia destroyed most of the settlement. He then went back to France. His son Charles de Biencourt de Saint-Just stayed in the colony and traded with the American Indians. Poutrincourt was born in Picardy , France.
