boarding-school. Thus small schools were founded at Lachine, Pointe-aux-Trembles (Montreal), Batiscan, and Champlain. The little Indian girls were always special favourites of hers. From the time she came to

appointed by the Compagnie des Cent-Associés to assume command in the event of Samuel de Champlain

with Champlain, Sagard

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

Paul Le Jeune, entrusted to his care the new habitation that Champlain was having built at

. Capitanal’s father, a friend of Champlain, was killed in the battle (1615) against the Iroquois in which Champlain

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

In 1608 Samuel de Champlain (d. 1635) founded the city of Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in America. A renowned

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 obstacle

in 1609–10. Champlain normally calls him “Capt

. Pierre Chauvin de La Pierre, or Chavin, of Dieppe, whom Champlain placed in command at Quebec

. 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

). Champlain wrote of him that “we had not known one who was a more faithful and serviceable friend.” He wrote further that Chomina was a man whose word carried weight, who was intelligent, of good

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

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

. 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

Razilly’s fleet at La Rochelle, which had the mission of coming to Samuel de Champlain’s aid at