Within hours of its surprise reinstallation at Orillia’s Couchiching Beach Park, the controversial Samuel de Champlain statue ...
CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. (WCAX) - While July 4 marks America’s 250th birthday, it’s also the 417th anniversary of a French explorer’s trip to New York that led to the naming of Lake Champlain. And now, a ...
Samuel de Champlain survived more than 20 voyages on the rough seas between Europe and North America 400 years ago. He canoed to the Vermont lake that now bears his name and helped his Algonquin ...