Pierre Dugua de Mons was a French merchant, explorer and colonizer. A Calvinist, he was born in the Château de Mons, in Royan, Saintonge and founded the first permanent French settlement in Canada. He
Bust of Pierre Dugua de Mons in Quebec City by Hamilton MacCarthy; installed on July 3, 2007, it is an exact copy of the one in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.