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.
September 1, 1557. near Saint-Malo, France. Jacques Cartier, (born 1491, Saint-Malo, Brittany, Franceâdied September 1, 1557, near Saint-Malo) French mariner, whose explorations of the Canadian coast and the St. Lawrence River (1534, 1535, 1541â42) laid the basis for later French claims to North America (see New France).