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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
 
falling into ruin and had few pupils, moved to Pointe-Claire in 1784. The Champlain mission near Trois-Rivières, which had been forced to suspend work three times since its founding in 1676 and which was
d’André Michaux en Canada, depuis le lac Champlain jusqu’à la baie d’Hudson (Québec, 1861).  j.r
 
. After a common school 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
 
-Anne, at the mouth of Lake Champlain, by a hostile Mohican party. Bruyas arrived in the Oneida village in September. He soon had his chapel dedicated
 
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 the prestige he had lost in 1910
 
1815 to build a bridge over the Rivière Champlain. Although Bureau had set up as a merchant in Trois-Rivières, he also transacted business at Quebec
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 the
 
Paul Le Jeune, entrusted to his care the new habitation that Champlain was having built at
 
-Frédéric offered no such opportunities but because of its strategic location on Lake Champlain it could exercise military and diplomatic influence over the Iroquois and other Indians. It was also important
 
. Capitanal’s father, a friend of Champlain, was killed in the battle (1615) against the Iroquois in which Champlain
, 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 Arnold’s fleet – Carleton failed
 
. 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
Celles, Cartier et son temps (Collection Champlain, Montréal, 1913); a brief, rather laudatory biography. J.-L.-K. Laflamme, Le centenaire Cartier, 1814–1914
 
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
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