A historic portrait of French explorer Samuel de Champlain has found a new home at the Samuel de Champlain History Center in ...
Notes: In this essay, James Kences tells the story of Samuel de Champlain, an important early French explorer, navigator, soldier, diplomat and founder of New France and the Quebec settlement. He made ...
You wouldn’t know it from most of the events held to date, but Henry Hudson wasn’t the first European to explore upstate New York 400 years ago this summer. Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer ...