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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.
Samuel de Champlain (1567–1635), French explorer, founded Québec City, born into a Huguenot family, died a Roman Catholic; Guillaume Chartier, theologian, French Antarctique colonist. [675] Louis Cordier (1777–1861), South African pioneer. Augustine Courtauld (1904–1959), British Arctic explorer. [676]
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. [1]
Samuel de Champlain (1567–1635) is known as "The Father of New France". He founded the first permanent European settlements in Canada, and explored many lakes and rivers in the interior lands from early age to his death. Henry Hudson (c. 1565 – c. 1611) explored what is now New York and northeastern Canada.
In 1608 Samuel de Champlain founded what is now Quebec City, which would become the first permanent settlement and the capital of New France. He took personal administration over the city and its affairs, and sent out expeditions to explore the interior. Champlain himself discovered Lake Champlain in 1609.
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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 (North America) Jean Chardin (Iran, India) Daniel de la Rivardière (South America) Simon François Daumont de Saint-Lusson (North America) Nicolas Denys (North America) Sieur Dubois (Indian Ocean, Madagascar, Réunion) Médard Chouart des Groseilliers (North America) Henri Joutel (North America) François de La Boullaye-Le Gouz