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Samuel de Champlain
Also called: Champlain
French explorer who founded Quebec in 1608, called the “Father of New France”
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The Frenchman Champlain founded Quebec on the St Lawrence River. It became the centre of New France, a colony built on the fur trade.
Themes this person appears in
- Islamic Empires and the Atlantic World1500 – 1800
Three centuries in which the Ottomans of Suleiman I, the Mughals of Akbar and the Safavids of Abbas I flourished and then faltered, while across the Atlantic the slave trade and colonies transformed the Americas, leading to American independence