It’s not in Canada, but the first wave of settlers at this place spent two months mining over a thousand tons of what turned out to be fool’s gold. In a proto-strike, Polish artisans in this place refused to work until they gained the right to vote. Soldiers en route to this place to stop a revolt hallucinated after eating a poisonous salad containing a plant now commonly named for this place. The shipwreck of Christopher Newport’s Sea Venture in the Bahamas led to the death of eighty percent of this place’s population during the Starving Time. A Pamunkey chief captured and brought a leader of this colony to his brother, Powhatan. For 10 points, what first permanent English settlement in the Americas was led by John Smith? ■END■
ANSWER: Jamestown (The name jimsonweed comes from Jamestown.)
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