But, now, they work in the shade of a tarp where they weigh the berries picked by others. Frankie (left) and Lalo (right) Vargas kept busy Wednesday, Aug. 19, buying and loading saw palmetto berries from local pickers that will be trucked to Fort Myers then sold. Photo by Okeechobee News/Eric Kopp.
Quick Answer. The French established their first permanent settlement in the New World in what is known today as Quebec. This city became one of the cities within New France, an area of explored and claimed land for France in the New World. Samuel de Champlain was the French explorer who found Quebec and established it as a city for France in June of 1608.
In 1608 the explorer, Samuel de Champlain, founded the first permanent French colony at Quebec. He also explored the area that is now northern New York State. It was not until sixty years later that the French began to expand south. In 1673 Jacques Marquette and Luis Joliet explored the central portion of the Mississippi River. They were followed by Robert Cavalier de LaSalle who sailed down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico and claimed the entire territory for France.