Champlain* and was ennobled by Louis XIV in 1654, and of Guillemette Hébert*, daughter of Louis

partners bought the seigneury of Champlain from Alexander Ellice* for £2,000. Modelling its

building of a powerful navy and military facilities in the Lake Champlain area, which evidenced their intense aversion to all things British. For these

the spring of 1834 he came to Lower Canada as assistant engineer for the building of the Chambly Canal. The Company of Proprietors of the Champlain

1815 to build a bridge over the Rivière Champlain. Although Bureau had set up as a merchant in Trois-Rivières, he also transacted business at Quebec

praised. He left immediately for Burlington, Vt, and there organized an expedition to plot the 45th parallel. But he caught “Lake Champlain fever”; becoming critically ill, he had himself taken back to

Champlain for £2,520, and in August a lot in the municipality of Trois-Rivières. In the Trois-Rivières region, Edward Greive, Bell’s future son-in-law and his agent, bought houses, building sites, and farms

. He also proved to be an astute negotiator, and left his name to the Rush–Bagot agreement concerning the reduction of naval forces on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. Worked out during 1816 with the

he ministered for a short time to a congregation near Lake Champlain, and then, possibly the following year, moved to Lunenburg, N.S. He settled finally in Sheet Harbour in 1821, again taking up

the building of a British fleet for Lake Champlain. Although John Schank was named superintendent of the dockyards

an unsigned article entitled “Particulars of the late disastrous affair on Lake Champlain,” which was published shortly after the Plattsburgh débâcle. Sewell admitted authorship but asserted that the

Champlain and the Richelieu and St Lawrence rivers, not only threatening Quebec but also blocking the only practical route for supplying posts such as Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.), Detroit, and

Quebec in October 1783. Savage applied for lands east of Lake Champlain. The Allen brothers, who commanded the Green Mountain Boys, were then trying

and three children, and acted as a frontier guide in the Lake Champlain region. As a result of this decision 600 acres of land he owned along the Connecticut River were reportedly confiscated, together

 April, 26 June 1820; 1 March 1821; 5 Dec. 1822; 22 Jan. 1824. F.-J. Audet, Les députés de Saint-Maurice (1808–1838) et de Champlain

) in 1759 and of a combat near the subsequent site of Sherbrooke. The surveyor general commissioned him to survey and subdivide several townships around lakes Champlain and Memphrémagog, including those

Plessis. In the autumn of 1780 Panet was chosen to minister to the parishes of Batiscan and Champlain. The following year he became parish

* de Monts and Samuel de Champlain* in 1604 determined which of three rivers known as the St Croix was the St Croix intended in

unpublished for more than 150 years, until the Champlain Society brought it out under the title The journal of Major John Norton, 1816, ed. C. F. Klinck and J. J. Talman (Toronto, 1970

from a Colonel Reid. Hardly had he arrived in 1773 when he was driven out by the Green Mountain Boys, who were asserting New Hampshire’s right to the area east of Lake Champlain (now Vermont