"These fresh discoveries," he wrote in The Vo yages ... primordial level, it is all about Samuel de Champlain. But the Champlain fixed in our national imagination is nothing like the wild man ...

We don't know what Samuel de Champlain really looked like, we're not sure when or even where he was born, and now the discovery of a baptismal certificate in La Rochelle, France, even has him ...

Notes: In this essay, James Kences tells the story of Samuel de Champlain, an important early French explorer, navigator, soldier, diplomat and founder of New France and the Quebec settlement.

On July 28, 2019, an image supposedly showing two large whales swimming beneath the Samuel De Champlain Bridge in Quebec, Canada, started going viral on social media (with the caption "One of the ...

A statue of Samuel de Champlain overlooks Lake Champlain in Plattsburgh. A Native American and a guideboat are below him on the pedestal. There are a number of factual errors on the statue ...