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Champlain First Steps in Canada
Samuel de Champlain first stepped on Canadian soil on this day. Champlain reported back to France: The land is level and fertile, covered in oak, cypress, birch, fir, and aspen...This makes me think that if the soil were cultivated, it would bear as richly as the land of France. -
Champlain Returns
Champlain returns as a mapmaker for Sieur de Monts. De Monts has a royal monopoly on the fur trade and wants to exploit it by building a settlement. Champlain and de Monts settle in Ile Ste. Croix. However, the settlers and Champlain soon realized the colony was in the wrong spot. Attacked by howling winds and scurvy, de Monts relocates the colony. -
Champlain Stays Put
Attacked by disease and scurvy even at the new colony (Annapolis Royal/Port Royale), de Monts gives all settlers an opportunity to head back to France. Only three stay and Champlain is one of them. -
Champlain Gets Permission to Found Quebec City
After the choice, de Monts recieves news that his monopoly on the fur trade is gone. Champlain and de Monts go to France to plead with the king. It works and Champlain also recieves permission to go and found a permanent colony. After studying his earleir maps from his time at Ile Ste. Croix, Champlain chooses the site of Quebec City. -
Champlain Builds Quebec City
From 1605-1608, Champlain travels with woodcutters, stonemasons, and carpenters to build Quebec City. Champlain has the city built and ready by the winter of 1608. -
Champlain Founds Quebec City
Champlain, all the workers, and 28 farmers settle for the first time in Quebec City. In this time, Champlain befriends the local natives, the Huron and Montagnais, the enemies of the Iroquois. He makes a deal: He'll help fight the Iroquois, if they help him explore. -
Champlain Goes to War
To honor his part of the agreement, Champlain goes with the Huron and Montagnais to fight the Iroquois. Shown guns for the first time, the Iroquois are startled when Champlain uses his to kill all their chiefs, and the Iroquois flee. -
Champlain Marries
Champlain returned to France to find himself a wife. In this year, Champlain married 12 year old Helene Boulle. The one condition of the marriage was that Champlain wasn't allowed to live with her until she turned 14. -
Champlain is Wounded
In a fight with Iroquois, Champlain is hit by Iroquois gunfire (through trading with the Dutch, the Iroquois now have guns too) twice in the leg. He must be carried into a Huron village, and the Huron and Montagnais lose faith in him. They keep him away from the battle throughout the rest of the war. -
First Family
The first settler family, the Louis Herbert Family, arrives in New France, not in Quebec City. New France isn't a dream anymore- it is a reality. -
Ambushed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quebec City is very low on provisions, so the King of France supposedly sends 6 ships full of provisions. But, Champlain thinks something is wrong. The King never sent 6 ships before. It was always three. The ships were actually English ships disguised as French ones, full of French traitors. One of the traitors is Champlain's adopted son, Etienne Brule.
The English ships park at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, stopping any French supply ship from getting through, trying to starve Quebec to death -
Ambushed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
. But, they hadn't counted on the persistency of Champlain. Until 1629, the French hadn't lost one man to starvation!! However, Champlain had to surrender. So, he did, giving New France and Quebec City to the English. -
The Truth Found Out!
4 days after the fall of Quebec, Champlain is on board the English ship when he learns that England and France have a peace treaty. The capture of New France was illegal. The English fired the man responsible, General Kirke, and New France is returned to the French. Champlain goes back to Quebec City. -
The Govenor of New France
In 1632 Champlain returned to New France for the last time. He was made govenor of New France and had complete control of it. The one thing he changed was placing a law forbidding the trade of alchohol to the natives, because this had coused many problems. -
Meeting With the Hurons
On hearing that Champlain was back, the Hurons fought with renewed vigor, breaking through an Iroquois blockade to meet Champlain. They somewhat fearfully told him of his son Etienne Brule's death. Being loyal to Champlain, they had tortured and eaten Brule, because he had betrayed France. They were scared because they thought that Champlain would avenge Brule's death, because Brule was a French citizen. But Champlain said that Brule had lost his French citizenship the day he betrayed Champlain. -
Champlain Dies
Champlain passed away this day, after having suffered a paralyzing stroke. At the funeral, a Jesuit priest said, "On the 25th of December, the day of the birth of our Savior on earth, Monseiur de Champlain was reborn in heaven. Champlain's body was laid to rest under the floor of Notre Dame de la Recouvrance. Champlain's last words about Canada were written to Cardinal Richelieu:
This country is so great that it stretches out more than 4000kms. In it is one of the best rivers in the world into w -
Champlain Dies
hich many other rivers empty themselves. These rivers grace a countryside in which many different people live. Some are wandering hunters or fishermen; others are farmers who live in villages with houses made of wood. The beauty of these lands cannot be over-praised for the fertility of the soil, the extent of the forest, and the opportunities for hunting and fishing in abundance.
