Question: Saint Croix Island, long known to locals as Dochet Island, is a small uninhabited island in Maine near the mouth of the Saint Croix River that forms part of the Canada–United States border separating Maine from New Brunswick, the island was the site of an early attempt at French colonization by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons in which year, Pierre Dugua de Mons, was a French merchant, explorer and colonizer?
Context: St. Stephen (2011 population: 4,817) is a Canadian town in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, situated on the east bank of the St. Croix River around the intersection of New Brunswick Route 170 and the southern terminus of New Brunswick Route 3.  The St. Croix River marks a section of the Canada–United States border, forming a natural border between Calais, Maine and St. Stephen.  U.S. Route 1 parallels the St. Croix river for a few miles, and is accessed from St. Stephen by three cross-border bridges. Pierre Dugua de Mons (or Du Gua de Monts; c. 1558 – 1628) was a French merchant, explorer and colonizer.  A Calvinist, he was born in the Château de Mons, in Royan, Saintonge (southwestern France) and founded the first permanent French settlement in Canada.  He travelled to northeastern North America for the first time in 1599 with Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit. The Order of Good Cheers (French: L'Ordre de Bon Temps), was originally a French Colonial Order founded by suggestion of Samuel de Champlain upon arrival in New France, present day Canada.  The Order of Good Cheer, was founded at Port-Royal, Nova Scotia and was originally chartered under the Royal auspices of the Baron de Poutrincourt and Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons.  The Order's practices were established by the first Chief Steward Marc Lescarbot. The Devils Head Site, designated Site 97.10 by the Maine Archaeological Survey, is a prehistoric and historic archaeological site in Calais, Maine.  Located on the banks of the St. Croix River, it is a shell midden site with evidence of multiple periods of human habitation, from the Middle Ceramic Period (c. 200-600 CE) to the Late Contact Period (mid-18th century) and beyond.  With its location near Saint Croix Island, the site of an early French settlement in 1604, the site's finds may provide insight into early French-Native relations in the area.  The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. The governance of the French colony of Acadia has a long and tangled history.  Founded in 1603 by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts, the territory of Acadia (roughly, the present-day Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, and portions of the U. S. state of Maine) was hotly contested in the 17th century.  It was claimed by English and Scottish interests, fought over by competing French governors, and subjected to raids and attacks from English colonists that sometimes resulted in years of occupation of some of its communities.  Most of the non-French claims were given up under the 1667 Treaty of Breda, but the territory did not come completely under French control until three years later.  From 1670 until 1710 the province remained in French hands, except for a brief period in the 1670s when Dutch attackers occupied several Acadian communities.  In 1710 a British expedition including Royal Navy warships and colonial forces from New England captured Acadia's capital for good, and France ceded an ill-defined territory to Britain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht.  Although France continued to claim those portions of present-day Maine and New Brunswick that constituted part Acadia, it had no formal government prior to the British conquest of New France in 1760.  The first British governor of Nova Scotia was Samuel Vetch; he took command immediately after the 1710 capture. The Saint Croix – Vanceboro Bridge is an international bridge, which connects the communities of Saint Croix, New Brunswick in Canada and Vanceboro, Maine in the United States, across the St. Croix River.  The bridge consists of three reinforced concrete slab spans for a total length of 37.82 metres, which carries a two lane roadway across the river. Vanceboro is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States.  The town was named after landowner William Vance.  The town is located at the eastern terminus of Maine State Route 6.  Vanceboro is across the St. Croix River from St. Croix, New Brunswick, Canada, to which it is connected by the Saint Croix – Vanceboro Bridge.  The crossing has a 24-hour customs station managing the border.  Vanceboro is also connected to St. Croix by the Saint Croix-Vanceboro Railway Bridge which is used by the New Brunswick Southern Railway. The Saint Croix–Vanceboro Railway Bridge is a 100 ft long railway bridge crossing the St. Croix River from St. Croix, New Brunswick, Canada to Vanceboro, Maine, United States.  A deck truss design, it is owned and operated by the New Brunswick Southern Railway. Saint Croix Island (French: "Île Sainte-Croix" ), long known to locals as Dochet Island, is a small uninhabited island in Maine near the mouth of the Saint Croix River that forms part of the Canada–United States border separating Maine from New Brunswick.  The island was the site of an early attempt at French colonization by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons in 1604.  In 1984 it was designated by the United States Congress as Saint Croix Island International Historic Site.  There is no public access to the island, but there is a visitor contact station on the U.S. mainland and a display on the Canadian mainland opposite the island. Hamilton Thomas Carlton Plantagenet MacCarthy {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'OSA RCA', '4': "} (28 July 1846 – 24 October 1939) was one of the earliest masters of monumental bronze sculpture in Canada.  He is known for his historical sculptures, in particular his Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia (1904) as well as Samuel de Champlain overlooking Parliament Hill on Nepean Point, Ottawa (1915), next to the National Gallery of Canada.  His monument to the Ottawa volunteers who died in the South African War (1902) was moved to Confederation Park in 1969 after several moves.  Other works include that of Ottawa mayor, Samuel Bingham, in Notre-Dame Cemetery in Vanier.
Answer: 1604