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Champlain

proper noun·Advanced

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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