Champlain

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Champlain

Total population

1,742

Coordinates46.44°, -72.34°

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer, navigator, cartographer, soldier, geographer, diplomat, and chronicler who founded Quebec City and established New France as a permanent French colony in North America.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Julien Dubuque

French Canadian explorer and pioneer

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Lucien Dubois

Canadian politician (1893-1948)

Jean Marchand

Quebec politician and trade unionist (1918-1988)

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Athanase Gaudet

Canadian politician

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Claude Carignan

Canadian politician

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Clovis Duval

Canadian poet and writer (1882-1951)

Georges Ball

Canadian politician

Hervé-Edgar Brunelle

Canadian politician (1891-1950)

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Joseph-Arthur Labissonnière

Canadian politician (1875–1930)

Joseph-Édouard Turcotte

Canadian politician (1808-1864)

Joseph Gaudet

Canadian politician (1818–1882)

Louis Adolphe Billy

Canadian politician (1834-1907)

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Onésime Carignan

Canadian politician (1839-1897)

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Paul Lahaye

Canadian politician (1902-1983)

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Rodrigue Larue

Canadian writer

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Charles-Borromée Genest

Canadian politician (1832-1873)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Quebec

• Gentilly
  4.3 mi away
• Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan
  6.1 mi away
• Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets
  8 mi away
• Wôlinak
  8.7 mi away
• Saint-Maurice
  9.1 mi away · pop. 3,286
• Saint-Narcisse
  10.4 mi away
• Précieux-Sang
  10.7 mi away
• Sainte-Angèle
  10.9 mi away
• Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade
  11.1 mi away · pop. 2,072
• Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain
  12.2 mi away
• Saint-Grégoire
  14.2 mi away
• Lemieux
  14.9 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Champlain

Constitution et réglements du Club de Crosse Champlain

Club de Crosse Champlain (Québec, Québec) · 1868

Constitutions, statuts et règlements de la Garde indépendante Champlain (de Québec)

Garde indépendante Champlain (Québec, Québec) · 1901

Champlain

Dionne, N.-E. · 1905

Samuel De Champlain

Josepha Sherman · 2002

Historic handbook of the northern tour

Francis Parkman · 1885

Le journal de Québec et le tombeau de Champlain

Stanislas Drapeau · 1867

Old Quebec, the City of Champlain

Emily Poynton Weaver · 2018

Old Quebec, the city of Champlain

Emily Poynton Weaver · 1907

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Bronzed Tiger Beetle

Cicindela repanda

Seen 2026-09-24

Eurasian Drone Fly

Eristalis arbustorum

Seen 2026-09-24

Common Drone Fly

Eristalis tenax

Seen 2026-09-24

Globetails

Sphaerophoria

Seen 2026-09-24

Banded Tussock Moth

Halysidota tessellaris

Seen 2026-09-21

Tricolored Bumble Bee

Bombus ternarius

Seen 2026-09-21

Common Blue

Polyommatus icarus

Seen 2026-09-21

New England aster

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae

Seen 2026-09-21

Hairy-eyed Flower Fly

Syrphus torvus

Seen 2026-09-21

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).