The Peterborough Examiner in Ontario recently published an article about a new book, Finding Champlain’s Dream, that will be launched at Trent Valley Archives on Saturday, September 5.
Here’s an excerpt from the Peterborough Examiner article:
A new book recounting Samuel de Champlain’s portage routes through Peterborough is about to be published, 400 years after the French explorer’s travels here.
Finding Champlain’s Dream was co-written by Elwood Jones, the archivist with Trent Valley Archives, along with Alan Brunger and Peter Adams.
Brunger is a geography professor at Trent University, and Adams is a former MP who is retired from teaching geography at Trent.
Jones said the book also contains essays and articles on the topic of Champlain from other experts, too.
It’s a geography book, but also a history book: it covers how Champlain interacted with First Nations people and how his travels here marked the start of francophone culture in Ontario.
You can read the entire article here.
Thanks to Elizabeth Lapointe for sharing this article in her blog, Genealogy Canada.
