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?