As a geographer and "artist" (as a factum states), he illustrated his accounts with numerous maps, of which the most important and the last was that of 1632.
Les éditions les plus importantes de son travail sont celles préparées par C.H. Laverdière (1870) ainsi que l'édition bilingue de H.P. BIGGAR (The Works of Samuel de Champlain, 1922-1936).