Samuel de Champlain Essays

  • Father of New France, Samuel de Champlain

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    Samuel de Champlain, who is referred to as the Father of New France, was born in the Brouage, Saintonge province, Western France. He was born to a protestant family around 1570. His father Anthoine de Champlain was a sea captain. The fact that his father worked in the high sea as a navigator, gave Samuel a strong desire to be a sailor and an explorer. This came when he was barely twenty years, under the guide of François Grave, he made his first voyage trip to the North America. Samuel Champlain

  • Henry Hudson in Comparison to Samuel de Champlain

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    Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain were two great explorers. Both were born around 1570 and were sons of sea captains . However, even though they both have similarities from how they were brought up, their voyages were very different from one another. Even the types of explorers they were are different from each other. Not a lot is known about Henry Hudson’s personal life. What we do know is that he was married to a woman named Katherine and they had three sons together. Also, it is said the Hudson

  • Christopher Columbus and Samuel de Champlain

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    explorers Christopher Columbus and Samuel de Champlain. These writings discuss their observations and experiences during their explorations to the New World. “Letters of Columbus, Describing the Results of his First Voyage” by Columbus and “From the Voyages of Samuel de Champlain” by Champlain both contrast in their opinion of the worth of the New World’s lands as well as their interactions with the Natives that these explorers came across. Columbus and Champlain were both devoted to the success of

  • Development of Canada and Samuel de Champlain

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    forefather of the second largest nation today, Samuel de Champlain. He is the famous French explorer who helped broaden the Europeans’ understanding of Canada. Few persons in his era came to recognise the potential that North America had to offer in terms of its lavishly diverse landscape, countless rivers, lakes, and its ample amount of fur. Samuel de Champlain’s arrival in Canada was the most significant event in the development of Canada as a country. Champlain had buoyant leadership skills vital during

  • Samuel De Champlain: The Father Of New France

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    Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain, who’s known as “The Father of New France” was a French explorer during the 17th century. He also was a navigator, cartographer, soldier, administrator, and chronicler of New France. He is famous for discovering Lake Champlain, Quebec City, and he helped establish the governments of New France. Champlain was born in 1574 in Brouage, to a family of marines and sea captains. He was the son of Antonio de Champlain ( a captain in the French marines), and his

  • New France

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    Location The location of New France was North America. North America was an area colonized by France which stretched from New Foundland to Hudson Bay to the Rocky Mountains all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico. All the territory was divided into 5 different colonies and those colonies were: Canada, Acadia, Hudson Bay, New Foundland(Plaisance), and Louisiana. Why Did Settlers Come to New France? Some settlers came for jobs and others came because either the king was going to give them money

  • Black Robe Film Analysis

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    Black Robe" is a 1991 movie starring Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young and Sandrine Holt. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and adapted from Brian Moore's 1985 novel of the same name. It was produced by a “Joint Film Production of Australia and Canada”. The movie lasts about one hour and forty-one minutes. The movie was named "Best Canadian Film" at the 12th Annual Genie Awards, with August Schellenberg also taking home the "Best Supporting Actor" trophy. (Epinions, 2004) The movie revolves around a

  • Dalia Judovitz's La Princesse De Clèves

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    Lafayette uses signs, which are motives, throughout her novel La Princesse de Clèves. She uses the dialogue between the husband and the Princess Mme. de Clèves to show the motive of passion. She also uses Mme. de Clèves to show her way of expressing toward the situation that the Princess has. Fabricated letter is also used in her novel to represent the signs of taking over the Princess’s feelings. In her novel, she utilizes characters For this essay, I would like to explore the structure of her

  • Apush North America Dbq Analysis

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    are greedy, adventurous, and religious. The English and French have many differences in the way they wanted their societies to be, and how they controlled the societies. Trade: This is the one thing that motivated all the French people with Samuel de Champlain. They were all passionate about seeking wealth and fortune, and trade was one of the biggest ways they thought they could become wealthy. They were seekers of all opportunities such as materialistic things, fur trades,

  • Unveiling the Mysteries of Lake Monsters

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    like that of a dragon, or a serpent's head over a long, sinuous neck.” (Rose, Carol) The Lake Champlain Monster has also been described as a similar monster, aloney more people have seen Nessie then Champ. “With a long periscope - like neck, a horse - like eared (or horned) head and maine, one or more humps along it’s back, dark skin and a fo! tal length of 4.6 - 15.3 meters (15 - 50 feet).” (Lake Champlain Monster). People have said the Lake Okanagan Monster or Ogopogo stands 3 - 4 feet wide and 25

  • Summary: Etienne Brule

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    friend Samuel de Champlain. At the adolescent age of sixteen I traveled with Champlain to New France, becoming his eyes and ears for the territory. The overall goal of me staying with the native tribe, the Algonquins, was to learn the local Huron language, explore the region, establish good relations with the Indians, and in a few years time report back to France and Champlain with what I had discovered from them. When I arrived in New France, the tribe I acquainted with gave Champlain one of their

  • Experiencing Slavery Through Equiano's Narrative

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    It seemed as though Champlain was planning to take his observations and use it against the Indians. One description Champlain has is “As for weapons, they have only pikes, clubs, bows and arrows. It would seem from their appearance that they have a good disposition, better than those of the north, but they are all in fact

  • Indians And Colonists Relations

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    resources, by befriending them as allies and, ultimately, by accepting them as permanent neighbors. The French were one of the first to explore the New World in the last half of the 16th century. King Henry IV of France sent an expedition, led by Samuel de Champlain, to secure exclusive fur trade routes and agreements with the native Indians near the St. Lawrence in present day Canada. In this endeavor, trading posts were built in an area known as “New France”. The native Montagnais tribe were quick to

  • French Fur Trade

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    com- petitive trading also incited much quarreling between competing colonies and Indian tribes. Since the early seventeenth century, French explorers had been able to keep peaceful relations with the Native Americans as a result of fur trading. Samuel de Champl...

  • Iroquois Haudenosau Knee

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    Great Lakes region and the Huron Indians allied with the French in a campaign against the Mohawks. Led by French explorer Samuel de Champlain, the Indian and French allies fought against the Mohawks near Lake Champlain. While the Mohawks outnumbered the French, Champlain surprised the Mohawk people by firing at them with a weapon that they have never seen before—muskets. Champlain singlehandedly killed three Mohawk chiefs with his gun. With only bows, spears and arrows as weapons the French scared the

  • Compare And Contrast French And Spanish Colonization

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    religious reasons. Both the Spanish and the French had used the excuse of needing to spread Catholicism within the Americas. The Spanish first used the excuse of “God, Glory, and Gold” to conquer the New World. Conquistadores like Hernán Cortés and Ponce de León had been a part of this motto and conquered for God, for the land and fame, and for all else the gold. Also when the Spanish had arrived in California, they had enslaved Native Americans to build missions. These missions would be used to place

  • Settlement in the Canadian Maritime Provinces

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    explorers. Jean Cartier was the first to formally explore the land that would become Acadia but Samuel de Champlain was the first to bring with him French settlers in 1605, making Acadia the second permanent European settlement in present-day Canada. Champlain’s group first settled along the banks of __________ River in 1604 but suffered in a hard winter, losing many of the settlers to scurvy. Champlain moved the settlement to Port Royal the following spring, and the settlement began to grow, forming

  • Canadian Imperialism

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    Once in Canada, Champlain undertook his most ambitious project – the founding of Quebec. With thirty-two other colonists, Champlain established a fort in what is now known as Quebec City. Here, a fur-trading center was established, becoming the hub for French fur-trading. Champlain became allies with the Hurons and other tribes in the vicinity, and built trading relationships in order to manufacture

  • Essay On L Identité Autochtone

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    Définir le concept d’identité autochtone Selon le gouvernement l’identité autochtone désigne les personnes qui ont déclaré être des Autochtones (Première Nations) qu’ils soient Métis, Inuits ou Amérindiens. En plus des personnes qui ont déclaré être Indiens inscrit out des traités aux termes de la Loi sur les Indiens du Canada et les personnes qui font partie d’une Première Nation ou d’une bande indienne. Par contre pour les Première Nations l’identité autochtone est plus que cela. C’est leur culture

  • Viking Settlement In North America Essay

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    Modern America, consisting of both Canada and the United States, are products of the European conquest of the aboriginal peoples of North America. Although there was an aboriginal population in North America who historically had problems with foreign settlers. Anglo-Americans had conflicts with natives because they viciously took the aboriginal people’s land and resources with no regard for cultural value or beliefs. However when the French encountered the aboriginal population they showed respect