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Title: The Makers of Canada: Champlain

Author: N. E. Dionne

Release Date: November 22, 2005 [EBook #17132]

Language: English

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_THE MAKERS OF CANADA_

CHAMPLAIN

BY

N.E. DIONNE

TORONTO
MORANG & CO., LIMITED
1912

_Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada in the year 1905,
by Morang & Co., Limited, in the Department of Agriculture._

CONTENTS

_CHAPTER I_ Page
CHAMPLAIN'S FIRST VOYAGE TO AMERICA 1

_CHAPTER II_
ACADIA--STE. CROIX ISLAND--PORT ROYAL 17

_CHAPTER III_
THE FOUNDING OF QUEBEC 39

_CHAPTER IV_
CHAMPLAIN'S VOYAGES OF 1610, 1611, 1613 59

_CHAPTER V_
THE RECOLLETS AND THEIR MISSIONS 81

_CHAPTER VI_
WAR AGAINST THE IROQUOIS, 1615 101

_CHAPTER VII_
FUR TRADE 119

_CHAPTER VIII_
CHAMPLAIN, THE JESUITS AND THE SAVAGES 143

_CHAPTER IX_
THE COMPANY OF NEW FRANCE OR HUNDRED ASSOCIATES 167

_CHAPTER X_
THE CAPITULATION OF QUEBEC, 1629 187

_CHAPTER XI_
THE LAST EVENTS OF 1629 199

_CHAPTER XII_
QUEBEC RESTORED 211

_CHAPTER XIII_
THE JESUIT MISSIONS IN NEW FRANCE 227

_CHAPTER XIV_
THE GROWTH OF QUEBEC 243

_CHAPTER XV_
CONCLUSION 261

CHRONOLOGICAL APPENDIX 283

INDEX 289

INTRODUCTION

In undertaking to write a biography of Samuel Champlain, the founder of
Quebec and the father of New France, our only design is to make somewhat
better known the dominant characteristics of