_CHAPTER XII_
QUEBEC RESTORED 211

_CHAPTER XIII_
THE JESUIT MISSIONS IN NEW FRANCE 227

_CHAPTER XIV_
THE GROWTH OF QUEBEC 243

_CHAPTER XV_
CONCLUSION 261

CHRONOLOGICAL APPENDIX 283

INDEX 289




INTRODUCTION


In undertaking to write a biography of Samuel Champlain, the founder of
Quebec and the father of New France, our only design is to make somewhat
better known the dominant characteristics of the life and achievements
of a man whose memory is becoming more cherished as the years roll on.

Every one will admire Champlain's disinterested actions, his courage,
his loyalty, his charity, and all those noble and magnificent qualities
which are rarely found united in one individual in so prominent a