Reason for Designation: North America’s premier walled city is an architectural treasure and a monument to European ... The legendary French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec early ...

York historian James Kences When Samuel de Champlain undertook the voyages of 1605 and 1606, it was not yet apparent how the ...

In 1604, the French explorer Samuel de Champlain made special note of an ... Act to set aside 5,000 acres of the island as a national monument. Three years later, on July 8, 1916, President ...

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.