Samuel Champlain

Samuel de Champlain, Esq. (13 August 1567 - 25 December 1635) was a Quebecois colonial administrator, engineer, geographer and soldier. He was a veteran of the Huguenot-Pontiff War and the Algonquian-Iroquois War. During his career, he served as first Director of the Compagnie du Canada, the tenth Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Quebec and the first Viceroy of the Empire of Canada.

Champlain's administration managed the colonisation of the St. Lawrence River valley,

His company established the Colony of Quebec

Personally, Samuel illustrated the first accurate maps of the Boreal Great Lakes, their constituent rivers and their connections to the St. Lawrence & Mississippi Rivers. He engineered the infrastructural design of the settlements of Port Royal, Saint John & Quebec, the capitals of the empire's three colonies; Acadia, Canada & Quebec.