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C.T. Ritchie

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BIOGRAPHY

Historian, writer, and artist. Author of The First Canadian: The Story of Champlain and others.

Primary Contributions (1)

Black and white portrait of Samuel de Champlain with shoulder-length hair, a pointed beard, and a mustache, wearing a wide white collar and dark clothing.

Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer, acknowledged founder of the city of Quebec (1608), and consolidator of the French colonies in the New World. He was the first known European to sight the lake that bears his name (1609) and made other explorations of what are now northern New York, the…