The 2025 shipping season officially kicked off with the arrival of the Innovation with Tug Samuel De Champlain. She arrived on Wednesday, March 12, at 1:49 p.m. carrying a shipment of cement.

The settlement of Port Royal, founded by Samuel de Champlain and his partner Pierre du Gua de Monts, of the Canada and Acadia Company, did not give them control over the fur trade in the interior ...