#champlain

[unteriors]

Church Street, Champlain, New York.

[magicworldcompany]

Sailing to Canada with Samuel de Champlain

[wandering-jana]

Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation Church, in Champlain, Quebec.

[philoursmars]

Deuxième étape de mon périple dans l'Ouest pour retrouver des ami(e)s lointain(e)s , Brigitte et Sylviane à La Rochelle. Bri étant fatiguée, c'est Sylviane qui me fait découvrir la belle île d'Oléron.

Avant le pont, sur le continent, la ville fortifiée de Brouage. L'église où la présence du Québec et du Canada se fait sentir partout. Il faut dire que la ville a vu naître Samuel de Champlain, fondateur de la ville de Québec.

[by-ng]

[adtothebone]

Today’s Blast

[whattolearntoday]

A bit of July 29th history...

1609 - Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills 2 Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, NY setting stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for next 150 years

1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule put down by police

1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England

1920 - Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders 

1951 - “Fellowship of the Ring”, 1st volume of “Lord of the Rings” by JRR Tolkien is published

1958 - US President Eisenhower signs into law National Aeronautics and Space Act (NASA) of 1958

1968 - Pope Paul VI declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited

2019 - “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus gained record for longest running #1 single on US charts - 17 weeks (pictured)

[gracie-bird]

BALL AT CHATEAU CHAMPLAIN (MONTREAL, CANADA) JULY 17, 1967.

The traditional twenty-one cannon shots thunder. Champagne is flowing at the Monaco pavilion. After lunch at the Hélène-de-Champlain Pavilion of Honor, a press conference allows journalists to meet Their Highnesses who then visit a few pavilions and take a ride in the Minirail, to the cheers of the crowd. A ball at Château Champlain crowned this princely visit. Unfortunately, a few hours later, the princess, rushed to the Royal Victoria Hospital, lost the baby she was expecting 😔😔😔