Instead, the Spanish government hired Provençal and Champlain for a trip to its colonies in the West Indies (the Caribbean region). They accepted, and between 1599 and 1601, Champlain made three voyages for Spain to her American colonies.

Champlain’s mission was clear; it was to explore the country called New France, examine its waterways and then choose a site for a large trading factory. Thus Champlain sailed from Honfleur on the fifteenth of March, 1603, and prepared to follow the route that Jacques Cartier had opened up in 1535.

Like any other explorer, Champlain faced many harsh obstacles to achieve his dream. Some were because of wars, lack of newer technology, and harsh winters. In 1609, Samuel and his crewmen befriended the Huron Indians and helped them fight the Iroquois Indians.

He was key to French expansion in the New World. Known as the “Father of New France,” Champlain founded Quebec (1608), one of the oldest cities in what is now Canada, and consolidated French colonies. He also made important explorations of what is now northern New York, the Ottawa River, and the eastern Great Lakes.

However, he never found the way through. His crew began to starve and Hudson did not treat them well. They put him and few loyal crew members into a small boat and left them adrift in the bay. Then they returned home to England.

After spending a winter trapped by ice in present-day Hudson Bay, the starving crew of the Discovery mutinies against its captain, English navigator Henry Hudson, and sets him, his teenage son, and seven supporters adrift in a small, open boat.

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