Québec 1603 - Samuel de Champlain

Explorer and colonizer, founder of Québec, discoverer of Lake Champlain, governor of New France, cartographer and writer--few men in Canadian history had a more adventurous and varied career than Champlain. This film presents an exciting picture-study of the man and his times.

La vie fabuleuse de Samuel de Champlain, racontée à larges traits de crayons colorés, dans un film d'animation qui nous dépeint ce grand explorateur et colonisateur français, fondateur de la ville de Québec et Père de la Nouvelle-France. En arrière-plan, la vie quotidienne des premiers colons.

Based on the journals of Samuel de Champlain, film animator Robert Doucet used coloured-pencil drawings to create this tribute to the explorer's vision. The narrative flashbacks focus on Champlain's dream of finding a western route to China. He abandoned this dream in 1615 when, upon reaching Lake Huron, he discovered not the fabled western sea, but fresh water beyond which lay yet more wilderness. But his dreams of a land continued, as he dedicated his life to developing a prosperous colony.