ABSTRACT
He went to sea before he was fourteen, and became a soldier under Henri IV. When he was nineteen he went to the West Indies, and his connection with Canada started in 1603, when, on his first voyage of exploration, he deduced the existence of Hudson’s Bay. He explored Acadia (now Nova Scotia), and in 1608 he started the building of Quebec. He fought the Indians, discovered the lake which bears his name, and in due course made his way to Lake Huron. He became the king’s lieutenant in Quebec, and in 1629 the commandant in New France, as Lower Canada was then known. He died in Quebec, having laid the foundations of French influence which remains to this day.
