When was champlain place built

Archived from the original on Retrieved Ivanhoe Cambridge. La Presse. Brossard, Quebec: Ville de Brossard. ISBN X. Le Devoir. Le Soleil. Quebec City. August 11, Brossard , Quebec , Canada. Lawrence as far as Hochelaga the site of Montreal.

Nothing was to be seen of the Amerindian people and village which Cartier had visited, and Sault St. Louis the Lachine Rapids still seemed impassable.

However, Champlain learned from his guides that above the rapids there were three great lakes Erie, Huron and Ontario to be explored. In exchange for a ten years exclusive trading patent, de Monts undertook to settle sixty homesteaders a year in that part of New France. From to , the search went on for a suitable permanent site for them. While the settlers were tilling, building, hunting and fishing, Champlain carried on with his appointed task of investigating the coastline and looking for safe harbours.

The three years stay in Acadia allowed him plenty of time for exploration, description and map-making. He journeyed almost 1, kilometres along the Atlantic coast from Maine as far as southernmost Cape Cod.

In , Champlain proposed a return to the valley of the St. Lawrence, specifically to Stadacona, which he called Quebec. In his opinion, nowhere else was so suitable for the fur trade and as a starting point from which to search for the elusive route to China.

John , and on the third of July, , he founded what was to become Quebec City. He immediately set about building his Habitation residence there. Champlain also explored the Iroquois River now called the Richelieu , which led him on the fourteenth of July, , to the lake which would later bear his name.

Like the traders who had preceded him, he sided with the Hurons, Algonquins and Montaignais against the Iroquois. This intervention in local politics was ultimately responsible for the warlike relations that were to pit the Iroquois against the French for generations. In , Champlain returned to the area of the Hochelaga islands. After Ivanhoe Corporation submitted a request to the City for the development of land for a shopping mall on September 12, , it took 15 years for the Mail Champlain to be constructed.

Mail Champlain was built in three phases. The first phase inaugurated on October 30, with a Sears and a Steinberg as major anchors. Although the mall itself began operating in October, Sears and Steinberg had been opened to the public since the beginning of the year. The second phase took place in with the arrival of 50 stores along with anchors Miracle Mart now the site of Les Ailes de la Mode and Cineplex Odeon now closed.

The final expansion occurred in La Baie appeared as well as two new mall wings, both leading to the La Baie store. An estimate of 50 new stores were added. The appearance of the current food court also happened during that third phase.