He served in the army of King Henry IV from to and learned how to fight. While serving, he went on a secret mission for the king. When he entered the service he was a quartermaster tending to the horses. When he left the service, he was a captain at a garrison. His wife was 30 years younger than he was.
They had one child. She lived in Quebec for a while, but then, she returned to France and joined a convent. Then, he traveled with the ship on a two year trip to the West Indies. The different spellings used for the family name of the child and his father can be explained by the fact these names had perhaps previously been written down only rarely.
A standard spelling had possibly not yet been adopted. What are the chances of finding another baptismal certificate dating from this era where the names are identical to those we find in other historical documents? The chances are in fact very small indeed. However, even though the family names of Chapeleau and Champlain are similar, this small difference — understandable as it may be — cautions us not to jump to conclusions.
Although the probability is slight, it is still possible that this document has nothing to do with our Samuel de Champlain.
If we are indeed looking at the baptismal certificate of our Samuel de Champlain, we can now say for certain that he was born into a Protestant family, most probably during the summer of But unless there is another discovery to equal the one made by Mr.
Denors N. Aymar de Chaste, governor of Dieppe in Northern France, had obtained a monopoly of the fur trade and set up a trading post at Tadoussac. He invited Champlain to join an expedition he was sending there. Thus Champlain sailed from Honfleur on the fifteenth of March, , and prepared to follow the route that Jacques Cartier had opened up in He proceeded to explore part of the valley of the Saguenay river and was led to suspect the existence of Hudson Bay.
He then sailed up the St. Lawrence as far as Hochelaga the site of Montreal. Nothing was to be seen of the Amerindian people and village which Cartier had visited, and Sault St. Louis the Lachine Rapids still seemed impassable. However, Champlain learned from his guides that above the rapids there were three great lakes Erie, Huron and Ontario to be explored. Champlain returned to be its governor. By this time, however, his health was failing and he was forced to retire in He died in Quebec on Christmas Day in We strive for accuracy and fairness.
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