The Champlain Society

Gatineau, Quebec, January 19, 2010 — Samuel de Champlain’s astrolabe replica is back at the Canadian Museum of Civilization following a historic voyage to outer space. Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Julie Payette visited the Museum today to return a replica of the famous artifact, and to tell a rapt audience about her latest mission to the International Space Station.

Read full article at the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Professor Catharine Wilson of Guelph University won this year’s Chalmers Award for Ontario History for her Tenants in Time: Family Strategies, Land and Liberalism in Upper Canada, which was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The selection committee, headed again by Dr Françoise Noël of Nipissing University, recognized that “this groundbreaking work has pushed the boundaries outwards into the previously unexplored subject of tenant farming.

Read full article in December's 2009 Pen and Paddle

Les Voyages de Samuel de Champlain from Les éditions du Septentrion on Vimeo.

A 10-storey sculptural ‘exclamation point’ planned for Nepean Point

OTTAWA — The National Gallery of Canada plans to install a 10-storey stainless-steel sculpture at Nepean Point this summer, a short stroll along a zigzag path from the iconic statue of Samuel de Champlain.

Read the full article at the Ottawa Citizen