France

Samuel de Champlain

1567-1635

Background Information:

Samuel de Champlain was born in Western France in 1567.  He acquired an interest from a very young age in the art of navigation, along with a love of the high seas. He was not yet twenty when he made his first voyage, to Spain and from there to the West Indies and South America. He visited Porto Rico (now Puerto Rico,) Mexico, Colombia, the Bermudas and Panama. Between 1603 and 1635, he made 12 stays in North America. He was an untiring explorer and an assistant to other explorers in the quest for an overland route across America to the Pacific, and onwards to the riches of the Orient.

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