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Copyright: Claudia RC (BlueRaven)
![Silver Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 45 W: 6 N: 127]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/s-n-g.gif) (495) |
| Genre: People |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-02 |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-06-18 3:44 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
While I'm waiting for better weather around Munich to take some blue-sky photos, I thought I'd post some more shots from my trip to Eastern Canada last February.
This one was taken in Ottawa, below Nepean Point, which you will pass when walking to Alexandra Bridge, a convenient way to cross Ottawa River and get to the neighbouring province of Quebec.
The statue depicts Samuel de Champlain who is probably most famous for founding Quebec City.
Some info from Wikipedia:
Samuel de Champlain (c. 1567 - 1635), "the father of New France", was born into a Protestant family or neighbourhood in the Province of Saintonge, lived when young in the town of Brouage, a seaport on France's west coast, and made a journey through Canada before he died in 1635 in Québec. A sailor, he also came to be respected as a talented navigator, a cartographer, and the founder of Quebec City. He was also integral in opening North America to French trade, especially the fur trade. Champlain's pattern was to spend several months or years managing, and exploring North America, and then head back to France to raise more funds (doing lobbying, and reporting, publishing…) for further explorations (to find some mines, and the way to China…) and for the colonization. |
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