From the parks website, you can read more – https://www.sepaq.com/pq/bic/decouvrir/portrait.dot?language_id=1
THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE PARK
“In late August, 1535, three small vessels bearing the arms of King Francis I, sailed up the St. Lawrence River at the mercy of the late summer breezes. On Sunday, August 29, seeing a site of great beauty, the captain ordered the anchor to be dropped in a natural harbour surrounded by islands and headlands, a true refuge from the river’s winds and currents. A keen observer, the Malouin captain and navigator thoroughly described the place in his journal, and on Wednesday, September 1, the small fleet raised anchor and hoisted the mainsail. Jacques Cartier and his crew left Bic.” (M.L.C.P., Lemieux, Paul. C’est arrivé par chez nous, 1986, p. 249).
But well before the arrival of European explorers, Amerindians frequented the area. There is no longer any doubt of their presence in Bic. Archeological research has uncovered many relics that attest to Aboriginal camps, some of which go back some 8,000 years.
The Seigneurie Era
In 1675, the Seigneurie du Bic was granted to Charles Denys de Vitré, mainly for fishing herring and other species, and for the fur trade. It then passed into the hands of many seigneurs, who saw different advantages in the area (speculation, fishing, fur trading), rather than the establishment of settlements and land clearing.
In 1822, Archiball Cambell, notary, acquired the Seigneurie du Bic and became the first resident Seigneur.
Fishing and the fur trade motivated the first colonists to settle in Bic (around 1680) and later in Cap à l’Orignal (around 1769). It was only after the extension of Chemin Royal to Sainte-Luce, in 1792, and especially after the logging industry was launched in the area, around 1820, that the first colonists settled in the Seigneurie of Baie du Ha ! Ha !