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Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer, navigator, cartographer, soldier, geographer, diplomat, and chronicler who founded Quebec City and established New France as a permanent French colony in North America.
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Born 13 August 1567 · Died 25 December 1635 · Q68529
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“I arrived there on the third of July, when I searched for a place suitable for our settlement; but I could find none more convenient or better suited than the point of Quebec, so called by the savages, which was covered with nut-trees.”
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Time Out Worldwide: Samuel-De Champlain Bridge Closed In One Direction All Weekend in Montreal
Time Out: Le pont Samuel-De Champlain ferme vers Montréal tout le week-end — voici les autres fermetures
Les Versants: Circulation : prévoir la fermeture du pont Samuel-De Champlain
NCPR: North Country Public Radio: North Country at Work: Lights, sirens, and saving lives in Champlain
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French genealogist Jean-Marie Germe discovered a baptismal record dated 13 August 1574 in the Saint-Yon Protestant temple register at La Rochelle for one Samuel Chapeleau, son of Antoine Chapeleau and Marguerite Le Roy
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To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Champlain's exploration of Lake Champlain
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Historian Jean Liebel conducted groundbreaking archival research and concluded that Champlain was born in approximately 1580 in Brouage
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Awarded Person of National Historic Significance (1929).
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First English publication 1859 as Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico 1599–1602)
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By Laverdière, as Brief Discours des Choses plus remarquables que Samuel Champlain de Brouage a reconneues aux Indes Occidentalles au voiage qu'il en a faict en icettes en l'année 1599 et en l'année 1601, comme ensuite (
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Died 1635-12-25.
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Career landmark: Governor of New France (1633–1635).
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Career landmark: Governor of New France (1626–1629).
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Born 1567-08-13.
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