I. Champlain, Lake BrE AmE
a North American lake between New York and Vermont, that goes up to Quebec in Canada
II. Champlain, Samuel de BrE AmE
(1567–1635) a French ↑ explorer and the first ↑ governor of French Canada. He ↑ explore d much of what is now Nova Scotia and established Quebec in 1608. He also was the first European to discover what is now called Lake Champlain.