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Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer, navigator, cartographer, soldier, geographer, diplomat, and chronicler who founded Quebec City and established New France as a permanent French colony in North America.
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![Inauthentic depiction of Champlain, by Théophile Hamel (1870), after the one by Ducornet, based on a portrait of Michel Particelli d'Émery by Balthasar Moncornet. No authentic portrait of Champlain is known to exist.[9]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Samuel-de-champlain-s.jpg/330px-Samuel-de-champlain-s.jpg)
Inauthentic depiction of Champlain, by Théophile Hamel (1870), after the one by Ducornet, based on a portrait of Michel Particelli d'Émery by Balthasar Moncornet. No authentic portrait of Champlain is known to exist.[9]
Sir Sandford Fleming Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia - Stone from Samuel de Champlain's birthplace in Brouage, France (1574)![Champlain and guide[16] in Isle La Motte, Vermont, at the site Champlain is said to have first set foot in Vermont (and encamped) in 1609. Lake Champlain is in the background. (Sculptor E.L.Weber, 1967; Photo by Matt Wills, 2009)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/SamuelDeChamplainStatueILMVT.JPG/1280px-SamuelDeChamplainStatueILMVT.JPG)
Champlain and guide[16] in Isle La Motte, Vermont, at the site Champlain is said to have first set foot in Vermont (and encamped) in 1609. Lake Champlain is in the background. (Sculptor E.L.Weber, 1967; Photo by Matt Wills, 2009)
Plaque in Honfleur commemorating Champlain's departures![Painting by George Agnew Reid, done for the third centennial (1908), showing the arrival of Samuel de Champlain on the site of Quebec City.[Note 6]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Samuel_de_Champlain_arrive_%C3%A0_Qu%C3%A9bec_-_George_Agnew_Reid_-_1909.jpg/500px-Samuel_de_Champlain_arrive_%C3%A0_Qu%C3%A9bec_-_George_Agnew_Reid_-_1909.jpg)
Painting by George Agnew Reid, done for the third centennial (1908), showing the arrival of Samuel de Champlain on the site of Quebec City.[Note 6]
Engraving based on a drawing by Champlain of his 1609 voyage. It depicts a battle between Iroquois and Algonquian tribes near Lake Champlain
Chaleur Bay and Gulf of Saint Lawrence - extract of Champlain 1612 mapIn their orbit 1
About this person
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deceased
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Lived 1598 to 1654 · aged 56
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