Today in History for July 4: In 1609, explorer Samuel de Champlain sailed into what was later named Lake Champlain in New York. In 1631, the world's first employment agency opened in Paris. In 1634, ...

T his week, our two countries celebrate national holidays. Canada’s was July 1 and is called simply Canada Day. It used to be known as Dominion Day but that had a bit too much of a whiff of ...

In the year 1615 the famous explorer Samuel de Champlain made a journey from Georgian Bay through Lake Simcoe, Rice Like and along the Trent River and recorded seeing evidence of former native ...

After the French explorer Samuel de Champlain described the falls in 1604, word of the magnificent sight spread through Europe. A visit to Niagara Falls was practically a religious experience.

Discover Canada - Canada’s HistoryIn 1604, the first European settlement north of Florida was established by French explorers Pierre de Monts and Samuel de Champlain, first on St. Croix Island (in ...

(By way of support for this claim, Samuel de Champlain, in his writings of meeting natives in his day, often described them as very fit and attractive.

Samuel de Champlain earned the undying enmity of the Iroquois Confederacy for his colony in Quebec when he joined the Hurons in battles against them between 1609 and 1615. The future location of Elora ...