Samuel de Champlain

Timeline

1. 1603Tadoussac · QuebecArrived at the mouth of the St. Lawrence with Pont-Grave's expedition, sailed upstream surveying and mapping the shoreline, and made initial contact with the Algonquin and other peoples, providing geographic and ethnographic intelligence for later French colonization.
2. 1608–1610Quebec · QuebecIn July 1608 he built the 'Habitation de Québec' on the cliffs by the St. Lawrence, organizing winter supplies and the fur trade, consolidating France's first permanent settlement in North America, later regarded as the starting point of the New France colonial enterprise.
3. 1609Lake Champlain · Great Lakes regionAt the request of Huron and other allies he penetrated inland, discovering and naming Lake Champlain after himself; near Ticonderoga he fought Iroquois warriors and used firearms, deepening Franco-Iroquois enmity while cementing alliances with Algonquian-speaking peoples.