appointed by the Compagnie des Cent-Associés to assume command in the event of Samuel de Champlain
.
On 5 Aug. 1763 Brown and Gilmore signed a partnership agreement, each putting up capital of £72. Travelling by way of Springfield (Mass.), Albany, Lake Champlain, and Montreal, Brown reached
highly unlikely. The old customs house, Rue Champlain, documented as by Blaiklock (1830–39), shows similarities in the basic architectural vocabulary but has none of the sculptural sense nor the
d’André Michaux en Canada, depuis le lac Champlain jusqu’à la baie d’Hudson (Québec, 1861). j.r
. The Champlain mission near Trois-Rivières, which had been forced to suspend work three times since its founding in 1676 and which was experiencing problems similar to those in Lachine, closed down
education in Vergennes and six years of employment in a country store, George Brush became one of the earliest steamboat entrepreneurs on Lake Champlain; in 1815 he commanded the Champlain, the
and are now very good Christians.” He was delayed for more than a month at Fort Sainte-Anne, at the mouth of Lake Champlain, by a hostile Mohican party
Champlain and the arrival of Montmagny. Bréhaut Delisle went back to Trois-Rivières in 1637 to organize a defence against the crafty attacks of the Iroquois. He showed himself to be a skilful
discoveries. The thread of his existence must be sought in the works of Champlain
Blondin* for the neighbouring riding of Champlain. Bureau’s anti-conscription fervour and his unshakeable loyalty to Laurier helped him regain some of
Trois-Rivières a short time later. As a resident of that town he requested the assembly’s permission in 1815 to build a bridge over the Rivière Champlain
*.
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
Champlain was having built at Trois-Rivières. The construction work, started 4 July under Laviolette’s
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
.
Capitanal’s father, a friend of Champlain, was killed in the battle (1615) against the Iroquois in which Champlain
east and west; at Fort St Johns, when he had Brigadier-General John Sullivan within his grasp; and on Lake Champlain, when he declined to attack Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.) even after having destroyed
. 1853. F.-J. Audet, Les députés de Saint-Maurice (1808–1838) et de Champlain (1830–1838) (Trois-Rivières, Qué., 1934). Raphaël Bellemare, Les bases de l’histoire d’Yamachiche, 1703–1903
parliamentary life, these volumes cover the period 1833–67 and provide a good background to Cartier’s career. Alfred Duclos de Celles, Cartier et son temps (Collection Champlain, Montréal, 1913); a brief
the spring of 1834 he came to Lower Canada as assistant engineer for the building of the Chambly Canal.
The Company of Proprietors of the Champlain