frontiers of the Government of Montreal. In July Lapause took part in reconnaissance near Lake Champlain. After the fall of Fort Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.) in July, Governor Vaudreuil

in the Company of Proprietors of the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad, a firm that built the first railway in Upper and Lower Canada. Running from La Prairie to Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

campaigning season ended, with two objectives in view: first, to destroy American naval establishments at Sackets Harbor and on lakes Erie and Champlain; and second, to occupy American territory in Michigan so

attacked by Colonel Francis Nicholson* and his army, invading the colony via Lake Champlain. Deschaillons was put in command of one of

Tracy’s expedition against the Iroquois in 1666. On 8 Jan. 1668 Saint-Ours married Marie Mullois, daughter of Thomas Mullois, at Champlain

northern end of Lake Champlain. Her infant died there, but by chance Jemima was reunited briefly with her two youngest sons, Caleb and Squire. At Fort Saint-Jean in the spring, she was suddenly sold by her

* Des Ormeaux, or events such as the battle of the Monongahela. He also wrote a long “Exposé des principaux événements arrivés en Canada depuis Jacques-Cartier jusqu’à la mort de Champlain,” which came

the counties of Champlain, Joliette, Berthier, and L’Assomption with Joseph-Édouard Cauchon*, the president, to get subsidies; the

out extensive surveys in northern New York and, when his father and family moved from Long Island, he reportedly set up a new home near Plattsburgh, on Lake Champlain. In the spring of 1794, accompanied

by William Brown*. In September 1783 he obtained a commission as a surveyor and opened an office in his house on Rue Champlain; here he also

Canadian provinces. Between July and November 1796 he travelled from Lake Champlain to Montreal and Quebec, returning through Montreal and continuing his journey to Kingston, Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake

authorities in Quebec with a secret reconnaissance mission to Lake Champlain. His success in this enterprise contributed to the defeat of the conspiracy said to have been promoted by David

president from 1849 to 1874. His investments in railways included Canada’s first railway, the Champlain and St Lawrence, completed in 1836 to connect Laprairie, on the St Lawrence River opposite

about 1804 he preached on Sundays and taught during the week. About 1813 he ministered for a short time to a congregation near Lake Champlain, and then, possibly the following year, moved to Lunenburg

afterward Poutrincourt and Champlain explored the coast to Cape Cod and established friendly relations with

Champlain), who agreed to equip a vessel and furnish supplies for Acadia in return for a share of future profits in the fish and fur trade. These merchants upon learning of the additional

Louis*, known as the Chevalier de La Corne, were destined to participate in military and commercial endeavours which took them to the same battlefields south of Lake Champlain and the same fur

July Nicholson had advanced up the Hudson and deployed his troops in stockaded forts from Stillwater (north of Albany, N.Y.) to the foot of Lake Champlain, whence with Iroquois assistance he could

Richelieu on 13 August; Fort Saint-Louis on 25 August; Fort Sainte-Thérèse in September. Forts Saint-Jean, Sainte-Anne, and Lamothe (this last one built on an island in Lake Champlain) were to

 Tour, as Champlain tells us, was that “he would rather have died than consent to such baseness as to betray