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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 ...
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.
SS Samuel de Champlain: Samuel de Champlain: 450 standard 8 December 1942: 10 January 1943: Sold private 1947, scrapped 1968 SS Samur: Samur 1773 standard 29 July 1943: 24 August 1943: Scrapped 1966 SS Samuta: Samuta: 1798 standard 11 September 1943: 3 October 1943: Sold private 1947, wrecked and abandoned 1953 SS Samvard: Samvard: 1837 ...
Don de Dieu, a French warship captured by the British in 1652; Don de Dieu, a French ship wrecked in 1842 off the French coast; Don de Dieu, a French ship wrecked in 1846 in the Bay of Biscay; Don de Dieu, a French fishing smack involved in the rescue of the Eprieve in 1866 in the North Sea; Don de Dieu, a French ship wrecked in 1870 in ...
Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 1596) was an English privateer who plundered many Spanish towns and ships in the Caribbean and elsewhere. However, he is most notable for completing the second circumnavigation of the world (1577–1580). Samuel de Champlain (1567–1635) is known as "The Father of New France".
In 1611, Samuel de Champlain named the rapids Sault Saint-Louis, after a teenaged crewman named Louis who drowned here; the name later extended to Lac Saint-Louis. This name remained in use until the mid-19th century, but later came to be replaced by the name of the adjacent town of Lachine. [2]
In Spring of 1608, two ships set sail from France: the Lévrier, under the command of Dupont-Gravé (François Gravé, Sieur du Pont, who was also in charge of the expedition), departed on April 5; the Don de Dieu, under the command of Samuel de Champlain, departed on April 13. On June 3, Champlain arrived in Tadoussac (the only inland trading ...
Port Royal was a key step in the development of New France and was the first permanent base of operations of the explorer Samuel de Champlain, who would later found Quebec in 1608, and the farmer Louis Hébert, who would resettle at Quebec in 1617. For most of its existence, it was the capital of the New France colony of Acadia.