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Champlain lands in Canada.
Camplain first stepped onto Canadian soil. The land is level and fertile, covered with oak, cypress, birch, fir, and aspren... "This makes me think that if the soil were cultivated, it would bear as richly as the land of Frace". These were his word about the country. -
befriended the local natives.
Champlain had befiended the local natives during the first year at Quebec, the Humorns and Montaganis, who were enemies of the Iroquois. -
Gives permission to a surviving member.
He gave permission to one of the eight surviving member, before returning to France, who asked if he could go live with the natives. -
Returns to France for more supplies.
He went back to France to ask the king for more supplies and to recruit new settlers. -
returns to france for a wife
Champlain returns to france in order to find a wife. He was in his mid-forty's and decided it was time to get married. He negotiated to marry the 12 year old daughter of a parisian secritary, Nicolas Boulle. The girls name was Helene. -
First Pioneer Family
Champlain had the honor of seeing the first pioneer family arrive at his settlement, the Louis Herbert family. Herbert arrived with his wife, two daughters, and his son to Quebec. This family would strive to live a successful life off of the land of Quebec and his daughters married other settlers in Quebec and had children. Herbert passed away but his family continued to keep the dream alive. -
Marriage is falling apart
Helene wore a neclace with a mirror in it and when they asked her why she wore it she said, "So that I can keep you close to my heart". She wanted to go back to France, Champlain brought her there and she was thrilled. He went back to Quebec and Helene felt more and more apart from Champlain but he didn't know his marriage was falling apart. -
Starving Natives.
In the spring the provisions of the settlers in Quebec were running low. Both the settelers and the natives were starving. Champlain could not let his native allies starve, so he provided them with some of their food provitions, which were dominition quickely. -
English took posession
The English took posession of Quebec. -
Returning to Quebec
He was appointed as the governor of New France and had complete control of the settlements along the St. Lawrence. On his return he placed a law that forbid any French settler to trade alcohol for furs to the natives, because this had caused many problems during the three years that Champlain was in France. -
Brule is dead
The Hurons had broken through an Iroquois blockade, after they had heard that Champlain was back, and brought a rich supply of furs to trade. The natives were afraid to tell Champlain that Brule had been captured, tortured, and eaten by the Hurons, after they had heard that he portrayed the French, because they thought that Champlain and the French would revenge his death because he was a French citizen. -
His Death
He died from a paralyzing stroke. He died on the day our Saviour was born on earth. CHRISTMAS
