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Samuel de Champlain was born in Brouage, France in the year 1567 and died on December 25, 1635. He is known as the founder of Québec, the father of New France and the father of the French colonial empire in North America. He made more than 20 voyages to New France.
Samuel de Champlain is still one of the most important people in Canada's history. In his childhood, he was trained and taught to be a navigator, a geographer and a cartographer. In the year 1603, Samuel de Champlain traveled to North America working as a royal geographer for the fur trading expedition. They group traveled to Tadoussac, a fur-trading center. Then he went up the St.Lawerance River to Saguenay, and then he made a map that shows the northeastern region of North America. That map is extraordinarily accurate at that time.
On Samuel de Champlain's second visit, which is in the years 1604-1607, he establishes a settlement in an area that the French called Acadie. In the winter of 1604 and 1605 Champlain's 35 out of 79 men died from the deadly scurvy disease. Champlain stayed there for three years.
In the year 1608 was the time when Champlain took his third trip, Champlain made a trading post that later became Québec on
Montagnais, the Algonquins and the Hurons. The business also gave the French some military aid. The Iroquois, French's longtime enemy fought the French on June 1609 at a lake that is now Lake Champlain. In the winter of 1608 and 1609, scurvy took away 16 out of 25 men but more came so Québec lived.
For the rest of Champlain's life, he traveled between France and New France several times. In 1610, while Champlain was in France, he married to Hélène Boullé, a young 12-year-old girl. He married the girl for her riches. Her riches kept the Québec post in function. Between the years 1616 to 1620, Champlain mostly lived in France but he went on short trips to Québec in the summer. Champlain became lieutenant of New France in the year 1612. Hélène Boullé went with Champlain to Québec in 1620. They were there for four years. They went back to France but Hélène never returned. In 1629, a dreadful thing happened to Québec. The English Kirke brothers took over Québec. The French had no other choice but to surrender since Québec only has 107 settlers at that time. Champlain was taken prisoner in England and was released in 1632.
Champlain went back to New France to fix the damage the Kirke brothers had caused. At that time, Champlain was not healthy and he died on December 25, 1635. Samuel de Champlain's body was probably buried in Notre-Dame-de-Québec.
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