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Samuel de Champlain lands at Tadoussac, Quebec, in the course of his third voyage to New France, and begins erecting fortifications.
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Samuel de Champlain
French explorer of North America (1574–1635)
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Tadoussac
Village in Quebec, Canada
Tadoussac is a village municipality in La Haute-Côte-Nord RCM, on the north shore of the maritime section of the estuary of St. Lawrence river, in Côte-Nord region, Quebec, Canada.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Area colonized by France in North America
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