Samuel De Champlain was a French geographer,
ethnologist, diplomat, navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, explorer , chronicler. He was the founder of Quebec City in Canada. He is known as the father of New France.
Samuel De Champlain came to Canada 1603. He came in the ship called Bonne Renommee. It was a fur trading expedition and he joined them as observer. He mapped St. Lawrence River and wrote an account of his travel on his return home. He was thus asked by Henry IV to make a report on his discoveries for which he travelled again in the Spring of 1604.