0-1763 (new france)

Explores the life and accomplishments of Father Jacques Marquette and his role in the founding of Michigan's first European settlement.

"Follows the travels of French mapmaker and navigator Samuel de Champlain as he mapped out the St. Lawrence River and the North American Coast."--Publisher.

Traces the competition among the American Indians, French, English, Spanish, and Dutch for land, furs, timber, and other resources of North America.

A biography of explorer Jacques Cartier who discovered the St. Lawrence River leading the way for further European exploration of North America. Describes how Cartier helped establish a trade network between the French and North American Indians in villages that became Montreal and Quebec City.

A biography of explorer Samuel de Champlain, looking at many of his journeys, his route to the Orient, and his love of New France.

A young woman uses her journal to chronicle her journey from France to Canada.

Orphan Genevi?ve Aubuchon is adopted by a family in Qu?bec after her village is destroyed and she worries about the fate of her brother who joined the fight to defend the colony against the English.

Emily Bing and Matt Martinez are transported back in time to 1665 New France, where they set out to rescue Marie who is caught in a blizzard.

Text and photographs recreate life in an eighteenth century pioneer settlement in Nova Scotia.

Genevieve Aubuchon, twelve-years-old in 1759, receives a journal for her birthday in which she records the details of her life in Quebec, New France, and her concerns that she may have to flee in the face of British invasion.