departing vessels at a considerably enhanced wage rate. An establishment of crimps, based on Rue Champlain near the port, emerged to facilitate, for a fee, the change of employment. In 1848 the government of

he had accumulated large land holdings. In February 1789 he bought the seigneury of Champlain. In August of the following year he paid Simon Fraser and John

 Champlain, was a Micmac chief who settled in the vicinity of Port-Royal, perhaps in St Marys Bay, probably as early as the mid 16th century. At the beginning of the 17th

 Nouvelle-France, or the Compagnie des Cent-Associés as it is often called. Participants included Richelieu himself, Champlain, and Razilly, who was appointed naval commander for the company. The company’s

 Champlain participated, stopped in various locations and attempts were made to plant wheat and vines. On 2 October, after arriving at Port

*. The first of the troops arrived in May, Burgoyne himself late in June. Carleton then followed the Americans in their retreat up Lake Champlain, with Burgoyne as his second in command. In November, at

junior positions before being appointed secretary to the president and the general manager. In 1884 he became superintendent of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad, which provided the Central

must have had some formal education because his first employment was apparently as a clerk to Dr John L. Wherry of Rue Champlain in the Lower Town. He then worked as a cabinet-maker before becoming

immediately and took up residence in Quebec with his wife, Angélique Juste, and their children in a house on Rue Champlain, near the future shipyard. That

writings of Samuel de Champlain, and which provides us with a number of unique and outstandingly valuable

*]. The rivers and lakes of the province of Quebec played a vital role in military operations. In 1775 Montgomery had advanced by way of Lake Champlain and the Richelieu and St Lawrence rivers, not

Amherst* at Crown Point on Lake Champlain. When Amherst decided to delay his invasion of Canada until spring of the following year (1760), Stobo returned to Williamsburg carrying a letter from Amherst

 Potherie, met a party of seven French officers from the Carignan-Salières regiment hunting on the borders of the Mohawk country in the vicinity of Fort Sainte-Anne, at the outlet of Lake Champlain. Among

Champlain and the Jesuits in their dealings with his people. He visited Quebec in the summers of 1632 and 1633, exhorting his people to trade once more with the French and showing some interest in

strategic location on Lake Champlain it could exercise military and diplomatic influence over the Iroquois and other Indians. It was also important as a barrier to the smuggling of furs into the English

, and the court of France accorded him no further reward or honour. On the other hand, in 1758 Vaudreuil granted him the seigneury of Alainville, southwest of Lake Champlain

. Langdon, Canadian silversmiths. Gérard Morisset, Le Cap-Santé, ses églises et son trésor (Collection Champlain, Québec, 1944). Traquair, Old silver of Quebec. Gérard Morisset

Cap-de-la-Madeleine until 1687, and then in the seigneury of Champlain from 1687 to 1700. In 1700 he moved to Montreal, where he carried on his functions for four years. He lived at Pointe-aux-Trembles

Champlain in Quebec’s Lower Town. They were at Lorette in the early 1730s and back in Quebec in the 1740s when Guillaume was employed as an expert estimator for the intendant. Just before his death he worked

1687 and exchanged for Jean Rioux’s seigneury on Île d’Orléans in 1696; a lot on the Champlain quay in Quebec, acquired in 1692; a seigneury at Antigonish, in Acadia, granted in 1697; an arriere-fief in