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The Champlain Society

Welcome

For more than 106 years, The Champlain Society has increased public access to Canada's rich documentary heritage. Explore four centuries of adventure, travel, social change, economic growth, and nation building through the Society's books and on-line Digital Collection. This is your history — experience it through the words and images of those who were there.

The mission of The Champlain Society is to increase public awareness of, and accessibility to, Canada's rich store of historical records.

Goals

  • To publish Canadian documentary materials edited and produced to the highest standards both for members of The Society and for the public at large;
  • To assist the Canadian public to a better understanding of the nation's past through occasional public lectures, seminars, colloquia, conferences, and the publication of occasional papers;
  • To serve as an advocate on the proper care of, and accessibility to, Canada's historical records;
  • To increase participation in the work of The Society by enlarging and broadening the membership.
 

Two Champlain Society Publications Digitized

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The Champlain Society is pleased to announce that it continues the digitization of back titles in coordination with the University of Toronto Library. Two titles have been added to the digital archives:

 

 

Two More Publications Digitized

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The Champlain Society is pleased to announce that it continues the digitization of back titles in coordination with the University of Toronto Library.

Two titles have been added to the digital archives:

 

 

The Writings of Pierre-Esprit Radisson

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Edited by Germaine Warkentin. Slated for publication by The Champlain Society in 2012.

The writings of Pierre-Esprit Radisson (c. 1640–1710) constitute vital primary sources for Iroquois culture in the seventeenth century. They furnish our first written record of the area around Lake Superior, and in the late seventeenth century they provided critical support for the English case in the debate with France over territorial rights in Hudson Bay. Radisson and his brother-in-law, Médard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers, were the men who in 1665 had brought welcome news to Charles II of a possible route through Hudson Bay to the continent’s rich furs, one that would evade the taxes imposed by the French settled along the St. Lawrence. Their action would lead to the chartering of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670 and thus, in J.B. Brebner’s often-quoted verdict, “change the course of history for half the North American continent.”

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From the Ashes of War, A Nation is Born

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From the Ashes of War, the Birth of a Nation: An Event to Commemorate the War of 1812 will be presented on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 by Senior College, University of Toronto and Fort York National Historic Site to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812.

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