Samuel de Champlain Monument, Isle la Motte, Vermont on Lake Champlain

Jim Millard, on February 1, said:

Photo by Jim Millard. Copyright © 2008 America's Historic Lakes, South Hero, VT USA

Jim Millard, on February 1, said:

The Champlain Memorial was sculpted at the Expo '67 World's Fair in Montreal, Quebec.

Stanley W. Gomez 77, on March 2, said:

Founder and Governor of New France. Tenacious and farseeing, an idealist devoting his life to founding an empire to be ruled "with justice and mercy by France, but for God". Yet in 1609 unwittingly, inaugurated the series of conflicts with the Iroquois' Five Nations that would "play havoc and flame to generations of yet unborn", as he assisted Algonquian and Huron Indians in their war with the Iroquois (near present Ticonderoga) who in turn enlisted the Dutch and English in their cause. Perhaps the New World's greatest explorer. Not only discovering the lake that bears his name, but also making trips to other distant destinations like the West Indies, Mexico, Canada and Cape Cod. See Morris Bishop: Champlain, The life of fortitude (1948). The Memorial seems majestic in Jim's photo.