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Title: The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain
Chronicles Of Canada, Volume 3 (Of 32)

Author: Charles W. Colby

Editor: George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton

Release Date: July, 2003 [Etext #4213]
Posting Date: December 13, 2009

Language: English

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THE FOUNDER OF NEW FRANCE

A Chronicle of Champlain

By Charles W. Colby

CHRONICLES OF CANADA, Volume 3 (of 32)

Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton

TORONTO, 1915

CHAPTER I. CHAMPLAIN'S EARLY YEARS

Were there a 'Who's Who in History' its chronicle of Champlain's life
and deeds would run as follows:

Champlain, Samuel de. Explorer, geographer, and colonizer. Born in 1567
at Brouage, a village on the Bay of Biscay. Belonged by parentage to the
lesser gentry of Saintonge. In boyhood became imbued with a love of the
sea, but also served as a soldier in the Wars of the League. Though an
enthusiastic Catholic, was loyal to Henry of Navarre. On the Peace of
Vervins (1598) returned to the sea, visiting the Spanish West Indies and
Mexico. Between 1601 and 1603 wrote his first book--the Bref Discours.
In 1603 made his first voyage to the St Lawrence, which he ascended as
far as the Lachine Rapids. From 1604 to 1607 was actively engaged in the
attempt of De Monts to establish a French colony in Acadia, at the
same time exploring the seaboard from Cape Breton to Martha's Vineyard.
Returned to the St Lawrence in 1608 and founded Quebec. In 1609
discovered Lake Champlain, and fought his first battle with the
Iroquois. In 1613 ascended the Ottawa to a point above Lac Coulange. In
1615 reached Georgian Bay and was induced to accompany the Hurons, with
their allies, on an unsuccessful expedition into the country of the
Iroquois. From 1617 to 1629 occupied chiefly in efforts to strengthen
the colony at Quebec and promote trade on the lower St Lawrence. Taken
a captive to London by Kirke in 1629 upon the surrender of Quebec, but
after its recession t