Meaning & use
Champlain
Samuel de Champlain, a French explorer and cartographer who founded the city of Quebec in 1608.
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Champlain explored much of northeastern North America in the early seventeenth century.
Lake Champlain, on the border of New York and Vermont, was named after him.
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Champlain is remembered as the 'Father of New France' for his role in establishing early French settlements in what is now Canada.
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