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Samuel de Champlain (French: [samɥɛl də ʃɑ̃plɛ̃]; 13 August 1574 [2] [Note 1] [Note 2] – 25 December 1635) was a French explorer, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.
Abitation de Quebec, 1608, established by Samuel de Champlain. Habitation de Québec was an ensemble of buildings interconnected by Samuel de Champlain when he founded Québec during 1608. The site is located in what is now Vieux-Québec, on the site of present-day Place Royale. [1]
1635 - The Jesuits found the Collège de Québec. 1635 - Samuel de Champlain dies on December 25. 1636 - Arrival of the new governor Charles Huault de Montmagny on June 12. 1639 - Foundation of the Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal. 1639 - Arrival of the Ursulines and the Hospitalières in the colony.
Samuel de Champlain overseeing the construction of the Habitation de Québec, in 1608. After the settlement of Port Royal in Acadia (1605), the next colonization effort by the French occurred in 1608. Samuel de Champlain built "l'Habitation" to house 28 people. [10] However, the first winter proved formidable, and 20 of 28 men died. [10]
Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America is a biography written by American historian David Hackett Fischer and published in 2008. It chronicles the life of French soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and "Father of New France," Samuel de Champlain.
In 1603, Samuel de Champlain travelled to the Saint Lawrence River and, on Pointe Saint-Mathieu, established a defence pact with the Innu, Wolastoqiyik and Micmacs, that would be "a decisive factor in the maintenance of a French colonial enterprise in America despite an enormous numerical disadvantage vis-à-vis the British colonization in the ...
Explorer Samuel de Champlain arrived on the ship Don de Dieu, [1] or "Gift of God" to found Quebec in 1608. Don de Dieu is one of three ships that set sail from France under Captain Henry Couillard [ 2 ] in the spring of 1608 to Tadoussac , from where the men, bringing the materials, reached on small boats what is now the Vieux-Québec (Canada ...
Champlain Habitation, future site of Place Royale. In 1608, the French explorer Samuel de Champlain established the settlement that would become Quebec City on the site of Place Royale. For this reason, the square is often referred to as “the cradle of French civilization in America." [2] [3]