When Did Samuel De Champlain Leave For New France?

Answer 1

In the early 1600s the King of France decided that it was time to try to make a settlement in New France again. The king knew that it cost a lot of money to build a settlement so far from home. In order to pay for it, he offered s monopoly of trade to any merchant who was willing to bring settlers to the St.Lawrence River. The merchant could use profits from the trade to pay the expense of creating a settlement in what the French were soon calling New France.
A French noble named Pierre de Monts received the first monopoly. In 1604 he sailed for New France, taking with him a map-maker and surveyor named Samuel de Champlain. Champlain explored the coast of what is now Nova Scotia and New Brinswik, and the French built a fort at a place they called Port Royal.
Port Royal turned out to be badly placed for the fur trade, so in 1608 Champlain and the French sttlers moved to the St.Lawrence River. They settled at the spot where Jaques Cartier had visited the village of Stadacona many year earlier. But the village had dissapeared; Donnacona's people were gone. Historians still do not know for sure what happened to them.
Champlain renamed the spot Quebec, from an Aboriginal word meaning "the place where the river narrows." He built a wooden habitation, a building that was a fort, a warehouse, and a home. That first winter, 20 of the 28 settlers died from illness and cold. But Champlain and the other survivors hung on, trading for furs and growing the first crops.
Champlain lived at Quebec for 27 years. He explored up near the river into the interior of the continent, arriving at the Greeat Lakes and making friends with the Wendat people who lived ther. He convinced the Wendat to bring their furs to Quebec and fought with them against their enimies, the Haudenosaunee.
But Champlain was more than a trader. He was a colinzer. He brought families from France to build farms and villiges and establish a permanent colony. When he died in 1635, Quebec was still small and struggling, but it was a start. For this reason, Samuel de Champlain is known as the founder of New France.













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