partners bought the seigneury of Champlain from Alexander Ellice* for £2,000. Modelling

Sagard, Histoire du Canada (Tross), I, 44. Dionne, Champlain, II, 47, 423, 436, 471. Roy, La ville de Québec, I, 57f.

Murray and others. Within months of receiving his commission Collins was busy fixing the boundary between Quebec and New York eastward from the St Lawrence River to Lake Champlain along the

, 1735, and yearly from 1739 to 1745 he sought out stands of oak and pine around Montreal Island, Lake Champlain, and elsewhere. He had to select and mark trees, and in 1740, 1744, and 1746 to supervise

. Langdon, Canadian silversmiths. Gérard Morisset, Le Cap-Santé, ses églises et son trésor (Collection Champlain, Québec, 1944). Traquair, Old silver of Quebec. Gérard Morisset

had come to Canada about 1613 according to Champlain, who spoke highly of him in 1628. Couillard was one of

Couillard* de Lespinay, who helped build New France in the time of Samuel de Champlain* and was ennobled by Louis XIV in 1654, and of

Bienville’s 1739 campaign against the Chickasaws; upon his return he was posted to Fort Saint-Frédéric (Crown Point) on Lake Champlain. In 1748 he was promoted lieutenant and two years later, because of his

. Champlain had held all legislative, executive, and judicial powers in the colony since 1612. He had acted first as the representative of the company operating the trading-post at Quebec, then, from

Upper Canadian ports of Hamilton, Port Stanley, and Amherstburg. As well, in 1850 they expanded into Lake Champlain to provide a connection with Boston and New York. During his rise as a forwarder, Crane

Cap-de-la-Madeleine until 1687, and then in the seigneury of Champlain from 1687 to 1700. In 1700 he moved to Montreal, where he carried on his functions for four years. He lived at Pointe-aux-Trembles

commandant at Fort Saint-Frédéric (Crown Point) on Lake Champlain, the forward bastion of the colony’s defences. The following spring troop reinforcements and supplies had to be rushed to Detroit to quell an

), son of Jacques Dandonneau and Isabelle Fain; d. 1702 at Champlain. Pierre Dandonneau was one of the most earnest and tenacious settlers

on the east side of Lake Champlain. He was eager, however, to return to the west. In 1753 he made several requests to accompany Paul Marin de La

Champlain’s aid at Quebec. However, as peace had been restored, Razilly was picked to go to Morocco, André Daniel was sent to London to demand the

 (N.B.). In 1759 Davies was promoted first lieutenant and joined Amherst’s expedition to Lake Champlain. He recorded both Fort Ticonderoga

Champlain took him to Quebec. In 1634 he set out for the Huron country, on the same expedition as Fathers Brébeuf

Champlain Sea occupied the entire valley of the St Lawrence River and extended into Lake Champlain. Upon this sea many boulder-laden icebergs had floated, leaving their mark on the deposits below

DAZEMARD (Dassemat, Dazmard, Dazmat) DE LUSIGNAN, PAUL-LOUIS, captain in the colonial regular troops, commandant; b. at Champlain (Que

Montgomery*], De Bonne took part in the defence of the town as an ordinary soldier in Captain Pierre Marcoux’s company. He became an ensign and in 1776 went on the Lake Champlain campaign; promoted