USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Samuel de Champlain, (born 1567?, Brouage, France-died December 25, 1635, Quebec, New France [now in Canada]), French explorer, acknowledged founder of the city of Quebec (1608), and consolidator of the French colonies in the New World.

Detailed explanation-2: -Champlain started his first colony in the New World on Port Royal, Nova Scotia in 1605. In 1608, Champlain started the first permanent French colony in the New World at Quebec (City) on the St. Lawrence River. The colony was started as a fur-trading center.

Detailed explanation-3: -Permanent European settlement of the region began only in 1608, when Samuel de Champlain established a fort at Cape Diamond, the site of present-day Quebec city, then called Stadacona. A half century later the French settlement had a meagre population of some 3, 200 people.

Detailed explanation-4: -Samuel de Champlain is appropriately called the “Father of New France”, because he nurtured the colonization of Canada through its failures, setbacks and successes. The French plans to colonize North America, in 1603, differed from the common practiced policies of colonization.

Detailed explanation-5: -He discovered Lake Champlain in 1609 and made other explorations of what are now northern New York, the Ottawa River, and the eastern Great Lakes.