Champlain's Map, 1632: The French explorer Samuel de Champlain published this map of New France in 1632. His travels through what would become Eastern Ontario took him up the Ottawa River, across to Georgian Bay and down to the Huronia area of northern Simcoe County where he stayed for some time (1615-1616). In 1615 he and his men accompanied a band of Hurons intent on attacking the Iroquois, who were encroaching on their hunting grounds north of Lake Ontario (Lac Louis). The Iroquois lived in what is now northern New York State, then claimed by England. Champlain was the first European to see Rice Lake and follow the Trent River system to Lake Ontario.