This short life follows Samuel de Champlain from his boyhood at Brouage and his soldiering in the Wars of the League to his voyages to Acadia, the founding of Quebec in 1608, and his journeys up the Ottawa to the Huron country. Colby also weighs the trading companies that starved the colony and Champlain’s own writings and character.
A clear, compact introduction to the explorer who planted France in North America, from the Chronicles of Canada series. Download the free EPUB.