HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lake Simcoe, Hiers-Brouage, Iroquois
18 Oct 2013
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Samuel de champlain- born in about 1570, town: brouage, southwest france - founder of new. Died in 1635 left 6 volumes of his writing as well as maps/drawing of this region. Describes the landscape and people he encounters, first written descriptions of indigenous people. Documents are ambiguous (can"t take as literally true) Born into a family that is up and coming, father was a ship owner. Champlain is living in a wealthy family, gives him opportunity, but also his family is part of a new emergent, merchant class, not noble. Regional differences, divide us because of our geography. New france this is an area, a colony established by france in area"s that will later become. St lawrence river valley, now known as canada, acadia (maritime areas. Louisiana 1701, detroit as well as illinois (mississippi ) Generic broad term to talk about a large area of new france. Centre of the french colony of new french is canada.
