Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain
Personal Details
Nicknames	The Father of New France Father of Acadia
Born	13 August 1567
Died	25 December 1635
Nationality	French
Occupation	Explorer Geographer Governor of New France

Samuel de Champlain (13 August 1567 – 25 December 1635) was a French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He made between 21 and 29 trips across the Atlantic Ocean, and founded Quebec, and New France, on 3 July 1608.

Popular Culture

Appearances

Variants

The following list is of explicit appearances of Samuel de Champlain.

Year	Name	Appearance	Notes
1987	Samuel de Champlain	Dreams of a Land	Depicted in animation. Champlain is given a writing credit on IMDB.
1991	Samuel de Champlain	Black Robe	Portrayed by Jean Brousseau.
2000	Samuel de Champlain	Canada: A People's History, episode "When the World Began"	Portrayed by Ghyslain Tremblay.
2017	Samuel de Champlain	Canada: The Story of Us, episode "Worlds Collide (Pre-1608 - 1759)"	Portrayed by Greg Zajac. Jean Talon is portrayed by Michael Findlay, James Wolfe is portrayed by Jordan Gray, Pierre Radisson was portrayed by Biden Hall, and General Montcalm was portrayed by Jordan Heron.

Mentions

The following list is of various mentions of Samuel de Champlain in fiction and popular culture.

Year	Name	Appearance	Notes
1999	Champlain	Relic Hunter, episode "The Headless Nun"	Adventurer and history professor Sydney Fox (Tia Carrere) is asked by a Nova Scotian convent to locate the missing body of one of its nuns, who was murdered by one of de Champlain's sailors in the 1600s.

Links

• Samuel de Champlain on Wikipedia
• Samuel de Champlain on the Canadian Encyclopedia
• Samuel de Champlain on Encyclopædia Britannica