Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
In most American textbooks, Samuel de Champlain is sort of a historical speed bump between Columbus and Lewis and Clark. David Hackett Fischer, author of "Champlain's Dream," believes the explorer deserves better treatment for his role as leader of one of the earliest settlements in North America -- Quebec.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
In most American text books, Samuel de Champlain serves as a sort of historical speed bump between Christopher Columbus and Lewis and Clark.
The Daily Vidette (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - In most American textbooks, Samuel de Champlain serves as a sort of historical speed bump between Christopher Columbus and Lewis and Clark. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer believes Champlain deserves better treatment for his key role as leader of one of the earliest settlements in North America.
Map the Universe (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
As mentioned in an earlier post, an early map of Canada by Samuel de Champlain, described by Sotheby’s Books and Manuscripts Catherine Slowther as “The driving force behind the initial success of French attempts at gaining a foothold in America,” was slated for the auction block this past November 13. Champlain’s 1612 map of Eastern Canada fetched an incredible $286,570 [...]
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
In most American textbooks, Samuel de Champlain serves as a sort of historical speed bump between Christopher Columbus and Lewis and Clark.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
A map of Eastern Canada drawn by French explorer Samuel de Champlain has sold at auction for $286,570 Cdn, three times its estimated price.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Champlain's Dream By David Hackett Fischer Simon & Schuster; 834 pages; $40 David Hackett Fischer likes to start his historical narratives - or, to put a fine point on them, learned entertainments, peerless and priceless - by reading a painting. Not always,...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
The historian David Hackett Fischer looks at the role of Samuel de Champlain in the establishment of the French in Canada.
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Samuel de Champlain, the great French explorer who founded the city of Quebec 400 years ago, gave his name to a long, chilly lake that runs like a wide river between New York and Vermont. But while his name remains on the map, it has been generally scrubbed from most people's sense of North American...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author is making a pair of appearances in upstate New York to promote his latest work, a biography of the 17th-century French explorer Samuel de Champlain.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
A resurrected Samuel de Champlain might have elevated the angry debate provoked by McGill University chancellor Dick Pound's recent assertion that Canada was a "land of savages" prior to the arrival of Europeans.
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
WaPo : Samuel de Champlain is little known to most Americans, except as the namesake of a frigid lake. Generally speaking, we're biased against the French and bored by Canada. In school books, France's role in the making of our nation doesn't extend much beyond Lafayette, the French-and-Indian War and the Louisiana Purchase. So it may surprise American readers that Champlain not...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Drawn by French explorer Samuel de Champlain, map dates from 1612
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
LONDON.- On November 13, 2008 Sotheby's London will auction a large, finely-engraved map of the northeast part of America, drawn by The Father of New France, Samuel de Champlain (est. £30,000-40,000). Champlain's very rare map of 1612 is considered the most important single map in the history of Canada, and can be regarded as a foundation document for Canada.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Parents from the valley made a presentation to the district education council earlier this week. Anne-Marie LeBlanc, the District 1 superintendent, said the parents made a strong case considering the francophone school in Saint John, École Samuel de Champlain, was just expanded, but it has already reached capacity.
