CHAMPLAIN : One of the Great E

CHAMPLAIN : One of the Great Explorers Samuel de Champlain discovered and rediscovered many locations in the New World. He was trained in seamanship, navigation and map making. Champlain wrote a book on how the Indians lived. The book had the best information about the Indians at that time. He made many voyages to the New World. Champlain was born in Brouage, France in 1567. Samuel went to war in Brittany when he was a young man. …

…to France once again. Champlain returned to Quebec and resumed his duties as governor in 1633. Champlain was a strong, good-natured man who kept his word. He had many ideas including a joint agriculture and fur-trading company between the French and Indians. Along with other accomplishments Samuel de Champlain was the first white explorer to gaze upon on of the Great Lakes, Lake Huron. In 1635 Champlain died on Christmas Day in Quebec, the city he founded.