In contemporary academia, disasters are seen as the consequence of inappropriately managed risk. These risks are the product of a combination of both hazards and vulnerability. Hazards that strike in areas with low vulnerability will never become disasters, as is the case in uninhabited regions.
Samuel de Champlain (French: [samÉ¥Él dÉ ÊÉÌplÉÌ] born Samuel Champlain; on or before August 13, 1574 â December 25, 1635), The Father of New France, was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.
Search billions of records on Ancestry.com. In the early 1800's, the northwestern region of the United States and parts of Canada were often referred to as New France. As Jesuit missionaries moved into the region, they set up a mission in Berrien County, at what is now Niles, called St. Joseph on the River of the Miamis..