The following are among the readings and references being reviewed by the Champlain Committee. We hope that you will join us in reviewing the variety of perspectives to form your own view of Champlain’s legacy.
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Scholarly Publications:
Buisseret, David. “The Cartographic Technique of Samuel de Champlain.” Imago Mundi 61,2 (2009) :
256-259.
Cole, A. O. C. Trent: The Making of a University, 1957-1987. Peterborough: Trent University, 1992.
Fischer, David Hackett. Champlain’s Dream. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2008.
Fryer, Mary Beacock. Champlain: Peacemaker and Explorer. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011.
Gonthier, Ursula Haskins. “Postcolonial Perspectives on Early Modern Canada: Champlain’s Voyages de la Nouvelle France (1632). ” French Studies 66,2 (2012) : 145-162.
Heidenreich, Conrad E. Explorations and mapping of Samuel de Champlain, 1603-1632. Toronto : B. V. Gutsell, 1976.
Hermann, M., & Pearce, M. “Travel Journals of Samuel de Champlain.” Cartographic Perspectives 62 (2009): 55–57.
Hunter, Douglas. “The Mystery of Champlain’s Astrolabe.” The Beaver 84,6: 14-23.
Jenish, D. (2014). Trent University : Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence. Toronto: ECW Press.
Jones, Elwood, Peter Adams and Al Brunger, eds. Finding Champlain’s Dream: Champlain, First Nations, and French Culture in Peterborough and the Kawarthas. Peterborough: Trent Valley Archives, 2015.
Manning, Sturt W. et al. “Contact-Era Chronology Building in Iroquoia: Age Estimates for Arendarhonon Sites and Implications for Identifying Champlain’s Cahiagué.” American Antiquity 84,4 (2019): 684-707.
Montgomery, David. “The Lost Seven Leagues: Samuel de Champlain’s Landfall in Huronia.” Ontario Archaeology 52 (1991): 3-14.
Neatby, Nicole and Peter Hodgins, Settling and Unsettling Memories. Essays in Canadian Public History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Peace, Thomas G.M. “Deconstructing the Sauvage/Savage in the Writing of Samuel de Champlain and Captain John Smith.” French Colonial History 7 (2006): 1-20.
Pentland, C.J. “Commemoration as Reconciliation: Indigenous History and Canada’s Heritage Designation System,” iJournal 6,2 (2021): 1-13.
Rodgers, Edward and Donald B. Smith, eds. Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994.
Stevenson, Michael D. “Free from all possibility of error:’ Orillia’s Champlain Monument, French-English Relations, and Indigenous (Mis)Representation in Commemorative Sculpture.” Ontario History 109,1 (2017): 214-237.
They Would Not Take Me There: People, Places, and Stories from Champlain’s Travels in Canada, 1603-1616. Colour Map. University of Maine, 2008.
Trigger, Bruce G. “Champlain Judged by His Indian Policy: A Different View of Early Canadian History.” Anthropologies 13,1/2 (1971): 85-114.
Original Sources:
Biggar, H.P. ed. The Works of Samuel de Champlain, 1608-1620. Volume IV. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1932.
Biggar H.P., ed. The Works of Samuel de Champlain, 1615-1618 (Voyages). Volume III. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1929.
Grant, W.L. ed. Lescarbot: The History of New France. Volume II. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1911.
Heidenreich, Conrad E. and Janet K. Ritch, eds. Samuel de Champlain before 1604: Des sauvages and Other Documents Related to the Period. Toronto: Champlain Society, 2010.
Library and Archives Canada (LAC). Les voyages du sieur de Champlain, Xaintongeois, capitaine ordinaire pour le Roy en la marine, « Abitation du port royal » 1613, e010764747; and « Abitation de Quebecq » 1613, e010774131.
LAC, Alexander E. MacDonald fonds. « Carte de la Nouvelle France…faicte [sic]... par le sieur Champlain ». 1632. NMC 51970.
Trent University Library and Archives (TULA), Board of Governors Minutes, Sept. 1963-Nov. 1964.
TULA, Campus Planning Committee Minutes, 1962-1965.
TULA, Champlain College: Coat of Arms Committee.
TULA, Trent University Art Committee Records.
Further Reading and Resources:
City of Kingston. "Alderville First Nation Commemoration Project. https://www.cityofkingston.ca/city-hall/projects-construction/alderville-first-nation-commemoration Accessed 15 October 2022.
City of Toronto. "A New Commemorative Framework for the City of Toronto's Public Spaces." Internal Report. 27 June 2022. 1-18. https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2022/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-228153.pdf Accessed on 15 October 2022.
Groat, Cody and Kim Anderson. "Holding Place: Resistance, Reframing, and Relationality in the Representation of Indigenous History." Canadian Historical Review 102,3 (2021): 465-484.DOI: 10.3138/chr-2020-0045.
Pentland, C.J. "Commemoration as Reconciliation: Indigenous History and Canada’s Heritage Designation System." iJournal 6,2 (2021): 1-13. DOI: 10.33137/ijournal.v6i2.36456.
Sentance, Nathan. "Whose History: the Role of Statues and Monuments in Australia." Australian Museum.12 July 2022. https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/statues Accessed 15 October 2022.
University of Melbourne (Australia),"Counter Monuments: Challenging Distorted Colonial Histories Through Contemporary Art and Memorial Practices." Webinar. Undoing Australia Series 2022.
https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/australiancentre/critical-public-conversations/undoing-australia-2022/counter-monuments-challenging-distorted-colonial-histories-through-contemporary-art-and-memorial-practices Accessed on 15 October 2022.