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First
First Champlain was fascinated
by the unfamiliar customs
Voyage
Voyage who lived near Tadoussac.
of the Anishinaabe people
He wrote about them in detail.
He was very interested in
their feasts, or “tabagies.”
At these tabagies, the
Champlain had already proven himself a skilled women danced and the men
sailor and soldier when he was chosen to sail on his competed in physical contests
first voyage to what is now known as Canada, in 1603. and races. Champlain wrote
Aymar de Clermont de Chaste, an advisor to King Henry This early map, drawn about them in some of the
IV of France, chose Champlain for this journey. The king by Champlain in 1613, earliest European records
shows Tadoussac.
had given de Chaste a fur trading monopoly in New of Indigenous cultures.
France. Champlain joined explorer and trader François
Gravé Du Pont, who was also known as Pontgravé.
Together, they were to explore the St. Lawrence River and
establish trade with Indigenous Peoples. They travelled
to the fur trading station of Tadoussac, where the wide He lands at
St. Lawrence River met the Saguenay River. Tadoussac on the
St. Lawrence River.
Tadoussac and Trade
Tadoussac and Trade
Tadoussac and Trade

March 15 Champlain May 26 Tadoussac was established on
Indigenous lands in 1599. It was the
1603 leaves France. 1603 centre of the French fur trade. For a

time, it was a colony that was home
to settlers from France. The king
and his French explorers and settlers
never questioned whether they
had the right to claim Indigenous
land. They simply took it, and called
their claimed lands “New France.”
However, the first settlers were
not skilled in how to survive in the
harsh landscape. Only five of the
16 settlers living in Tadoussac lived
The St. Lawrence is a
long river, stretching through their first winter there.
3058 kilometres, from
the Atlantic Ocean to
Lake Ontario. This is a replica of a fur trading
post at Tadoussac, the fi rst in
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