I was watching an interesting program on my local PBS station abut Champlain and his expeditions in North America when he was looking for a passage to China.
He met up with the natives including the Mohawks near what is know Montreal. He named a lake after himself - Lake Champlain.
This all happened in the early 1600s.
About the same time I was listening to a music CD in the basement of my house in Ottawa. Ottawa recently celebrated a birthday - it was 150 years old.
On my music CD there was music by Bach and Pachelbel and Handel and Vivaldi. Bach died in 1750. Pachelbel died in 1706. Handel died in 1759. Vivaldi died in 1741.
When they wrote their music in some European country - the Mohawks or other native groups were the only people around in the Ottawa area.
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