. Champlain reports a violent quarrel on the subject of religion between the minister and “nostre curé,” which was fought with fists. This “curé” was probably Nicolas Aubry

. This was the period when emigration to New England was depopulating the countryside and villages of Champlain county. A man by the name of Hubert Trépanier, sensing there was money to be made, persuaded

France c. 1633 (1639 according to the census of 1681); d. 28 July 1688 at Champlain

the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. Worked out during 1816 with the American secretary of state, James Monroe, the agreement was formalized by an exchange of diplomatic notes on 28

; Champlain’s votive church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Recouvrance, built in 1633 and burned 1640; and a temporary chapel in the house of the Cent-Associés used between 1640 and 1647. The parish church had

a founder of the Canadian Society of Authors in 1899, the Ontario Library Association in 1900 (he served as president in 1901–2), and the Champlain Society in 1905. He was president of the Canadian

major rivers flowing into Passamaquoddy Bay was indeed Samuel de Champlain*’s St Croix. Negotiations ended successfully for the British

was intended to duplicate Fort Saint-Frédéric (Crown Point, N.Y.) and facilitate the settlement of the Lake Champlain region. This construction was begun in the spring of 1748 under the direction of the

. 1610–29. When Champlain arrived in Quebec

master’s mate in 1814; he served in the Mediterranean, off the coasts of France, Holland, and Spain, in the West Indies, and at Quebec and Halifax before joining the British flotilla on Lake Champlain in

], “Discours de M. Albert Sorel,” dans Léon Le Clerc, Champlain, célébré par les Normands et les Canadiens : mémorial des fêtes données à Honfleur les 13, 14 & 15 aout 1905 (Honfleur

ignored. He did persuade the minister to construct Fort Saint-Frédéric at the headwaters of Lake Champlain after learning of an English plan to settle on

., Manitoba and the great north-west . . . (Guelph, Ont., 1882). The original of his journal for the years 1869–70, published by the Champlain

successful war-party against the Iroquois in the summer of 1603. Champlain described the events that transpired

 – Bell launched into land speculation, an infrequent activity for him until then. On 23 May 1817, for example, Monro had bought jointly with the absent Bell the seigneury of Champlain for £2,520, and

Champlain in 1607 as a very old cross, all covered with moss). Bellenger described

or New France, ed. J. C. Webster (Champlain Soc., XX, 1933). La Morandière, Hist

afterward Poutrincourt and Champlain explored the coast to Cape Cod and established friendly relations with

Champlain), who agreed to equip a vessel and furnish supplies for Acadia in return for a share of future profits in the fish and fur trade. These merchants upon learning of the additional

, and Marguerite Drapeau; b. sometime between 1643 and 1645 in France; buried 28 Oct. 1708 at Champlain