Produced by Brendan Lane, Stacy Brown Thellend and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Illustration] _THE MAKERS OF CANADA_ CHAMPLAIN BY N.E. DIONNE TORONTO MORANG & CO., LIMITED 1912 _Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada in the year 1905, by Morang & Co., Limited, in the Department of Agriculture._ CONTENTS _CHAPTER I_ Page CHAMPLAIN'S FIRST VOYAGE TO AMERICA 1 _CHAPTER II_ ACADIA--STE. CROIX ISLAND--PORT ROYAL 17 _CHAPTER III_ THE FOUNDING OF QUEBEC 39 _CHAPTER IV_ CHAMPLAIN'S VOYAGES OF 1610, 1611, 1613 59 _CHAPTER V_ THE RECOLLETS AND THEIR MISSIONS 81 _CHAPTER VI_ WAR AGAINST THE IROQUOIS, 1615 101 _CHAPTER VII_ FUR TRADE 119 _CHAPTER VIII_ CHAMPLAIN, THE JESUITS AND THE SAVAGES 143 _CHAPTER IX_ THE COMPANY OF NEW FRANCE OR HUNDRED ASSOCIATES 167 _CHAPTER X_ THE CAPITULATION OF QUEBEC, 1629 187 _CHAPTER XI_ THE LAST EVENTS OF 1629 199 _CHAPTER XII_ QUEBEC RESTORED 211 _CHAPTER XIII_ THE JESUIT MISSIONS IN NEW FRANCE 227 _CHAPTER XIV_ THE GROWTH OF QUEBEC 243 _CHAPTER XV_ CONCLUSION 261 CHRONOLOGICAL APPENDIX 283 INDEX 289 INTRODUCTION In undertaking to write a biography of Samuel Champlain, the founder of Quebec and the father of New France, our only design is to make somewhat better known the dominant characteristics of the life and achievements of a man whose memory is becoming more cherished as the years roll on.