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Samuel de Champlain

Brouage, France 1567 - Québec 1635
French navigator, geographer, cartographer
(Wikipedia)

Hamilton MacCarthy
1915

Description

Bronze statue.

Inscription(s)

CHAMPLAIN
1613 / 1913

Signature

H MacCARTHY

Information Sign

Plaque of the "Commission des sites et des monuments historiques du Canada":

SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN
Né à Brouage, France, 1567
Mort à Québec le 25 décembre
1635.
Géographu du Roi, naviga-
teur, explorateur, fondateur de
la cité de Québec, et gouver-
neur de la Nouvelle-France.
Le premier parmi les cana-
diens illustres * * *
Born at Brouage, France,
1567. Died at Quebec, 25th De-
cember, 1635.
King's geographer, naviga-
tor, explorer, founder of the
city of Quebec, and Governor
of New France.
The first great Canadian.
a.d. 1936.

Informatiebord / Information sign:

Samuel de Champlain
Hamilton MacCarthy
1915
Several other works of public art by the same artist
such as the sculpture of an Anishinabe scout located in Major's Hill Park
can be foud around the Capital
On peut voir plusieurs oeuvres de cet artiste dans la region de la
capitale, notamment la sculpture d'un guide Anishinabe
qui se trouve dans la parc Major's Hill.

Sculptor

Hamilton P. MacCarthy (1846-1939), British-Canadian sculptor.

Locatie (N 45°25'45" - W 75°42'4") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ca007; Photograph: 19 October 2000 / updated: 5 March 2011
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