Samuel de Champlain

            Samuel de Champlain was important in the development of New France.  Every time Champlain went on a voyage, he accomplished a great deal.  He was a skilled cartographer who provided detailed maps of the Atlantic Coast, the waterways of the St. Lawrence River and its tributaries, and a view of the interior of the continent that had until then, not been available to Europeans.  He established a military alliance with the Huron people.  He joined them in an attack near a lake that would bear his name.  Champlain worked tirelessly to build a colony for France.  Before Champlain died, he established a successful colony.

Roles of Religious Figures

            There were religious figures in the life of New France.  In New France, the religion is Roman Catholic.  Jesuits are also part of the Roman Catholic religion.  Their role was to make schools for boys and girls and to spread Roman Catholic religion to the First Nations people.  St. Ignatius Loyola was a Jesuit.  He founded the society in 1534 to reform and promote Roman Catholic religion.