Eulogy For Samuel De Champlain

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Eulogy for Samuel De Champlain (1567-1635) ‎02/‎11/‎2010 We are have gathered here today, my friends, to say farewell to Monsieur Champlain... Samuel, my friend I can not believe that you are truly gone. After all the good times we had together. Do you remember on our voyage to New France. You got chosen by the King Of France to go on a fur-trading expedition as a geographer. After we travelled up the St. Lawrence river you used the information that you collected to make a very accurate map of Canada from Hudson Bay in the north down to the Great Lakes. You were so happy that day. When we returned to France, the king was impressed and sent you on another trip to New France. I remember when we land on an island. You decided to make it the very first non-permanent settlement of New France. You named the settlement Saint Croix. I remember, during that winter, all the men were depressed and sad and you were the only one who was still cheerful. that was just like you, cheerful even at the worst of times. And then you created the Order Of Good Cheer. All the men were happy when they heard of this, and then came the winter, the worst we had ever experienced. We were low on supplies and everyone thought they were going to die. That when you, my dear friend told us to move to the mainland if we wanted to survive. We did and that's where we built the fort Port Royal. Samuel gave the name. And then there was your third voyage. We set sail with two other ships. The ships arrived on the St Lawrence in June of 1608 and we continued by small boat on to the site of Stadacona which was the Iroquois village that Jacques Cartier had made contact with. And then a month later you decided to make a settlement near the shore, naming it Quebec. My friend, you are and will

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