Samuel de Champlain (redirected from Samuel Champlain)

Champlain, Samuel de 

Born 1567 in Brouage, near Rochefort; died Dec. 25, 1635, in Quebec. French hydrographer. Explorer of Canada and the northeastern USA.

Champlain made a journey along the St. Lawrence and Saguenay rivers in 1603. Between 1604 and 1606 he explored various parts of the Atlantic coast of North America, including the peninsulas of Nova Scotia and Cape Cod, the Bay of Fundy, and Massachusetts Bay; he discovered the island of Nantucket. In 1608 he founded the city of Quebec near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.

Champlain explored the Richelieu River, a right tributary of the St. Lawrence, in 1609. On that trip he discovered the Adirondacks, the Green Mountains, and the lake that was later named for him. Between 1609 and 1615 he undertook trips in search of a water route to the Pacific Ocean. In 1615 and 1616, Champlain journeyed by way of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers and Lake Nipissing to Lake Huron deep within the North American continent.

WORKS

Oeuvres de Champlain, 2nd ed, 6 vols. Paris, 1870.

REFERENCE

Magidovich, I. P. Istoriia otkrytiia i issledovaniia Severnoi Ameriki. Moscow, 1962.