The islands that were mentioned are believed to be the Isles of Shoals. The passage of the explorer close to the present town ...

Not long after the arrival of Samuel de Champlain and his men in Quebec, in July of 1608, the plan to establish a permanent trading post there was threatened. Champlain was tending his garden when ...

The settlement of Port Royal, founded by Samuel de Champlain and his partner Pierre ... Map of St. Lawrence They would have to continue their exploration and find a suitable site for the ...

Ghislain Tremblay portrays explorer Samuel de Champlain in Canada: A People's History. Before he died, he made sure to send Samuel de Champlain to New France. The founding father of New France ...

Samuel de Champlain wasn't the first Frenchman to reach Québec, but he was the first to stick around. In 1535, explorer Jacques Cartier stopped at the site – it was then an aboriginal village ...

In 1604, the French explorer Samuel de Champlain made special note of an island dominated by looming knobs of bare granite, with tall peaks rising close to the Atlantic. He called it Mount Desert.

A LUXURIOUS French ship made waves as she sailed into Greenock this morning. Le Champlain arrived at Greenock's Ocean ...

One of Canada’s oldest cities is also one of its most delicious. Quebec City, founded in 1608 by French explorer Samuel de Champlain on a strategic bend above the Saint Lawrence River on the ...

The passage of the explorer close to the present town ... York historian James Kences When Samuel de Champlain undertook the voyages of 1605 and 1606, it was not yet apparent how the competition ...