CHAMPLAIN TERCENTENARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 142, 13 July 1909, Page 2

CHAMPLAIN TERCENTENARY.

A TRil'E FRIENDSHIP. liy Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. New York, July 11, 'President Taft, in striking connection with the I'hnmplaiu tercentcnarv, signalised the triple friendship between the United States, Britain and France. Chainplaiu was the governor of the first French settlers in Lower Canada. His father was a sea-captain, and probably lie was already srt-illed in :i:ivig,ition when, while xtill vouna, he entT-i- ---*«' army of Henry IV. On the conclusion of the war he acconrpmi.. j a Spanish lleet to .Mexico an! t-.ie West Indies, in 1003 iie maile his til-st 'voyage to Canada, being se?it out b: )jj Chaste*, on whom the King hud be Atoned some territory in that country. During 1(104-1007 he was engaged in exploring the Ca.i.nH;in coatU, in seeking a site for a new settlement, and in mal" ing surveys ami map?. In IUIIB !,.• made his third voyage; ~nd in this ~e.ir he commenced the formation of a settlement in Quebec. Cluunpliiin held the I ollice of lieutenant, .which made him I in reality governor of the colony. Ow- I ing, however, to quarrels with the In- • i.the settlement seemed likely to fail, but afterwards .began to flourish, in 1112!) it met with a reverse, Chaniplain being forced to surrender to an English licet. He wa« carried to England, but was restored to liberty in 1032. He returned to Canada in the next year, and died there two years afterwards. The Chaniplain Lake, lying between tae States of New York and Vermont, in North America, owes its name to the French explorer, by whom it was dis™'"«l about 1608. During the war of was rendered famous by the defeat of the English fleet in an engagement which took place in 1814.