of Canada against the invading Americans in that summer’s campaign around Lake Champlain and the upper St Lawrence. He fought at Fort Saint-Jean on 6 Sept. 1775 and was erroneously reported

Tessouat whom Champlain visited in 1613; d. 1636

Champlain’s arrival on the St. Lawrence (29 May 1603) he and François Gravé Du

Champlain’s writings. It is clear that Thevet talked with explorers; that he was host to Cartier in Saint-Malo; that he cited the latter as his verbal source at various points in his writings; and

on the Ohio, Niagara, and Lake Champlain fronts for 1755. Johnson was selected to command the expedition against Fort Saint-Frédéric because of his influence with the Indians, who were a key factor in

names Sydenham, Seaton, and Durham to Maisonneuve, Champlain, and Plessis. He became better known, however, as the champion of the Conservative party. More than 200 Tory candidates are estimated to have

Tyrrell* began his campaign in the 1880s to give him his due. It was only when Tyrrell obtained the manuscript in the 1890s and edited it for publication by the Champlain Society in 1914 that David

“Lake Champlain fever” that year, and he remained with the survey after Bouchette was replaced as chief surveyor by William Franklin

. The Great Mohawk fought under his orders. At the end of August he went to Lake Champlain and met some 60 Mohawks who were on their way to attack the colony. The Great Mohawk persuaded them to go back

]. The Torrances were equally interested in railway development. As early as 1832 they were among the incorporators of the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad. By 1847 their firm had invested £1,000 in

Amherst*] [on Lake Champlain].” For the first time, the essential strategic weakness of the French position was pointed out and exploited: Quebec, and the French army outside Quebec, were dependent on

out extensive surveys in northern New York and, when his father and family moved from Long Island, he reportedly set up a new home near Plattsburgh, on Lake Champlain. In the spring of 1794, accompanied

-la-Madeleine, Champlain, Batiscan, and Sainte-Anne, living at Batiscan.” Perhaps he never received a commission granting him the title of royal notary, but the authorities allowed conscientious

Bourgeoys* set up missions at Champlain and Batiscan. But “lacking the resources which were indispensable for living and for giving charity in their turn,” the sisters had to withdraw in 1685. Even though

took the position of general manager of the new subsidiary company, Champlain Oil Products Limited, with an annual salary of $20,000. Trudeau

Trudel’s father was a prosperous farmer in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, and his grandfather, Olivier Trudel, represented the county of Champlain in the Lower Canadian assembly from 1830 to

Guillet in Champlain and by Louis-Joseph Papineau in Saint-Maurice, so that he was obliged to resign as solicitor general in March 1848. But Turcotte returned to the assembly in 1851 as member

historical monuments to Samuel de Champlain

*, commander-in-chief of the British forces in the colony, appointed him controller of works for the building of a British fleet for Lake Champlain. Although John

induced him to make heavy purchases of oak and pine on both sides of Lake Champlain. Usborne apparently led a moderately active social life at Quebec. He