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Museum number: 2009,4044.7
Description: Struck bronze medal; in presentation box. (whole); France to left and the United Kingdom to right as two women in drapery seated under a maple tree, banderoles entwined in its branches; France resting one elbow on a plinth with fleur-de-lys, England resting her left forearm on a shield with the Royal Standard and gesturing upwards with her right hand to a cartouche above. (reverse); Samuel Champlain standing to front, wearing a short cloak, stepping onto land from a small boat, lifts up a sword in his right hand, and holds a hat in his left hand, two pots on the rocky ground where sparse vegetation grows; a crown, a dolphin and a banderole on either side of the image. (obverse)
Producer name: Designed by: Henri Dubois; Die Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine: Henri Dubois; Made by: Monnaie de Paris
Production date: 1908
Production place: Made in: Paris (France)
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Dimensions: Diameter: 77 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: A card accompanying the medal has the following printed text, signed by George Garneau: "Presented by / The National Battlefields Commission / in commemoration / of the / Tercentenary of the Founding of / Quebec by Champlain / Quebec, / Canada Geo. Garneau. CHAIRMAN". In 1608 Champlain sailed from France in command of the Don-de-Dieu, with two other ships. They arrived at Tadoussac on the St Lawrence in June of 1608 and the journey continued continued by small boat to the site of Stadacona, an Iroquois village previopiusly visited by Jacques Cartier, later abandoned. Champlain founded Quebec City in the same year. For another version of this medal, see 1910,0502.1.
Location: Not on display
Subjects: heraldry; boat/ship; allegory/personification; traveller/travel; tree/bush; mammal
Associated names: Portrait of: Samuel Champlain; Associated with: Sir George Garneau; Named in inscription: Henri IV, King of France and Navarre; Named in inscription: Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom
Associated places: Named in inscription: Québec (city); Named in inscription: Stadacona
Associated events: Commemoration of: 300th anniversary of founding of Quebec (1908)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 2009
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: 2009,4044.7

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