Settlement: (recreation - actors) shots of First Nations men sitting on ground as others dance, firing flintlock rifles. Shot of "coureurs des bois" arriving in three canoes, one of them deposits plaque inscribed in Latin on pile of rocks and adresses Indians. Shots of landing of "coureurs des bois", First Nations men, white men acting, including view of man dressed in period costume reprensenting noble explorer. MS of French explorer posing nobly at bow of canoe.