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Samuel de Champlain: Explorer and Colonizer

Summary

1570 Born in Brouage, France
1603 Goes on trading mission to New France
1604-7 Voyage to Acadia with settlers
1608 Voyage to New France; starts habitation at Stadacona
1609 First battle with Iroquois
1610 Returns to France to marry Hélène Boullé
1613 Travels up Ottawa River
1620-24 Champlain's wife in New France
1629 English ships arrive and force Champlain to leave
1633 Champlain returns to New France
1635 Dies at the habitation

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