-Rivières, and other localities. But he was less successful in the countryside. L’Assomption and Champlain counties, under pressure from the Ultramontanes, opposed any contributions, and thus broke the
extended by four years, the de Caëns undertook to pay the stipends of Montmorency and his lieutenant Samuel de Champlain
Champlain’s absence. When he came to Canada in 1629 to bring supplies to Quebec and to load on board the furs which Guillaume de Caën had left there, he encountered the
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
CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE, soldier, cartographer, navigator, author, explorer, founder of
. The provincial seat of Champlain, vacated in November 1867, provided Chapais with an alternative and he was returned by acclamation. Two months later he was appointed to the Senate for the division of
Champlain in 1628.
Champlain had for a long time wished to adopt some young Indians, in order to have them educated in France. But the
, 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
Champlain. He owned a black slave, male, about 25 years of age, valued at 1,200 livres. The funeral expenses of Chaussegros de Léry amounted to 1,016 livres, 15 sols
Champlain placed in command at Quebec during his absence in 1609–10.
He was of a
. Champlain, when he arrived, agreed that it was best to avoid taking strong action. Hereafter, however, he did not allow Cherououny to return to Quebec and made a point of publicly humiliating him
with the French for several years (1618–29). Champlain wrote of him that “we had not known one who was a
building of a powerful navy and military facilities in the Lake Champlain area, which evidenced their intense aversion to all things British.
For these
Champlain and afterwards began trading in forest products. Indeed the “seigneur” was, for a time, also a businessman.
Christie believed above all in the
of the Champlain Society. A benefactor and councillor of the Art Association of Montreal, he possessed “many fine pictures” and donated the stained glass windows for the Royal Victoria Hospital’s
. [G.] Shaw, Our Lady of the Cape, (Montreal, 1954). E[ugenie] Talusier, Autour du clocher natal: notes historiques sur la paroisse de Saint-Prosper, comté de Champlain (Trois-Rivières
condensed record of governments from the time of Samuel de Champlain in 1608 down to the time of Earl Grey in 1905 . . . (Toronto, [1905]); the latter contains a photograph of Cockburn but
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