For more than 100 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.
Professor Catharine Wilson of Guelph University won this year’s Chalmers Award for Ontario History for her Tenants in Time: Family Strategies, Land and Liberalism in Upper Canada, which was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The selection committee, headed again by Dr Françoise Noël of Nipissing University, recognized that “this groundbreaking work has pushed the boundaries outwards into the previously unexplored subject of tenant farming.
Phillip and Terry Rollason check in on the Champlain monument at Brouage summer of 2009, 54 years after Bryan Rollason spent some time cleaning it up in 1955.
Consider David Thompson, the boy taken from a charity home in London in 1784 to work for the Hudson’s Bay Co. in the New World.
