Charles I remained true to his compact with Louis XIII, and Quebec and Nova Scotia were restored to French keeping.

In 1633 Champlain returned to Canada as Governor, bringing with him a considerable number of French colonists.

_It is from 1633 that the real French colonization of Canada begins_: hitherto there had been only one family of settlers in the fixed sense of the word; the other Frenchmen were fur traders, soldiers, and missionaries.

But Champlain only lived two years after his triumphant return, and died at Quebec on Christmas Day, 1635.
His character has been so well summed up by Dr.S.E.Dawson, in his admirable book on the _Story of the St.Lawrence Basin_, that I cannot do better than quote his words: "Champlain was as much at home in the brilliant court of France as in a wigwam on a Canadian lake, as patient and politic with a wild band of savages on Lake Huron as with a crowd of grasping traders in St.
Malo or Dieppe.

Always calm, always unselfish, always depending on God, in whom he believed and trusted, and thinking of France, which he loved, this single-hearted man resolutely followed the path of his duty under all circumstances; never looking for ease or asking for profit, loved by the wild people of the forest, respected by the courtiers of the king, and trusted by the close-fisted merchants of the maritime cities of France.".