In the year 1615, there dwelt on the south-eastern shore of Lake Huron, between Lake Simcoe and the Georgian Bay, a nation of Indians who were called in their own language, “Wendats” or “Wyandot,” and by the French ” Huron.” There is no record of their having been visited by the white man prior to the above date. In the same year, the Sieur de Champlain, the Father of French Colonization in America, who had entered the St. Lawrence in 1603 and founded Quebec five years later, ascended the river Ottawa as far as the Huron country-Le Caron, the Franciscan, having preceded him by a few days only. These adventurous pioneers were seeking, in their respective spheres, and by concurrent enterprises, the one to explore the western portions of New France, and the other to establish missions among the North American Indians.
Champlain’s Expedition of 1615 against the Onondaga TOC
- Huron and Algonkin joined Champlain on Expedition
- Edition of 1632, Compiled by Publisher?
- Jesuit Doblon’s traveled the Route Twice
- Reply to Dr. Shea and General Clark
- The Authenticity and Accuracy of the Map
- The Starting Point of the Expedition on Lake Ontario
- Route Across the Lake
- The Landing on the South Shore
- The March on the Beach
- The Inland Route to the Fort Ticonderoga
- The Location of the Fort Ticonderoga
- The Founder of New France, A Chronicle of Champlain
- Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century