New France: Champlain Settles Quebec (1608-1610)

02/15/22 • 41 min

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In our continuing story of Samuel de Champlain, Quebec is finally settled, but keeping control of the trade along the St. Lawrence will require overcoming constant obstacles. The Natives convince Champlain to war with the Iroquois and a conspiracy in Quebec requires Champlain to lay down the law.

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New France: Champlain, Saint Croix and Port Royal Acadia (1604-1607)

Champlain participates in founding Saint Croix, located in the modern day State of Maine, visits Patuxet the Wampanoag Village and future site of Plymouth and maps the coast of Southern Acadia a decade before it became know as New England. At Port Royal the 100 year old Mi'kmaq Chief Membertou meets the French in his own sail boat and claims to have known Jacques Cartier some seven decades ago.

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New France: Champlain Digs In (1610-1619)

Founding Quebec will be easier than keeping it. Champlain spends the decade crossing the Atlantic over and over again, in an effort to keep the financing of New France afloat. Champlain enters into an unsavory marriage, chases rumors of the lost Henry Hudson and invades Onondaga the center of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.