Samuel de Champlain
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Summary
Samuel de Champlain was more than just an explorer. He was a visionary. In the early 1600s, while other Europeans searched for gold, fur, and quick profit, Champlain dedicated his life to something greater, creating a permanent settlement in North America.
Transcript
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Ken has many founders, but only one father of new friends, Samuel de Champlain.
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In the early 1600s, while other Europeans searched for gold, fur, and quick profit,
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Champlain dedicated his life to something greater, creating a permanent settlement in North America.
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He faced brutal winters, famine, and disease, yet never abandoned his greater mission.
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He embodied noblesse oblige, leading from the front, suffering alongside his men,
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and never asking of others what he wouldn't endure himself.
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champlain was also a renaissance man a skilled sailor cartographer diplomat leader tactician
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and warrior he could draw maps of the unknown command a ship through storm negotiate a court
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in france and then fight on the battlefield alongside his allies unlike other europeans
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who dismissed the first nations as savages champlain met them with respect he often went
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into councils unarmed showing trust good faith and bravery he built alliances fought alongside
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them as a comrade in arms secured partnerships that made new france possible these alliances
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weren't charity it benefited both sides the french gained allies and trade the first nations
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gained a powerful partner throughout his great and impressive life champlain embodied distinctly
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canadian virtues communication compromise and courage he bridged worlds between the old world
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and the new between settlers and first nations people and he did so with vision and humility
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samuel de champlain was more than the father of new friends he was a model of what a canadian
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leader should be brave air and dedicated to the common good his legacy is the foundation of canada