In addition to the fur trade ,Samuel de Champlain's Quebec colony was helped by firearms and gunpowder and spreading of faith.
Champlain the visionary would change history.He dreamed not only of adding a great domain of France but of bringing wealth through the fur & firearms trade, of spreading the faith and of penetrating the mysteries of the great and baffling continent.He persuaded the Sieur de Monts to write off his Acadian ventures and fired him with a new energy for an expedition to Quebec.Samuel de Champlain invented/found Canada during his exploration/voyage.
