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The Dauphin Map of Canada, circa 1543, showing the discoveries of Jacques Cartier. In 1986 the American historian Samuel Eliot Morison wrote about the search for the Kingdom of Saguenay by explorers in the time period between 1538 and 1543, during which France regarded the search as a means to an end. France had paid for Cartier's third voyage ...
Jacques Cartier [a] (Breton: Jakez Karter; 31 December 1491 – 1 September 1557) was a French maritime explorer from Brittany.Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map [3] the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas" [citation needed] after the Iroquoian names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona ...
European powers employed sailors and geographers to map and explore North America with the goal of economic, religious and military expansion. The combative and rapid nature of this exploration is the result of a series of countering actions by neighboring European nations to ensure no single country had garnered enough wealth and power from ...
Portrait of Jacques Cartier by Théophile Hamel, arr. 1844. In 1534, Francis I of France sent Jacques Cartier on the first of three voyages to explore the coast of Newfoundland and the St. Lawrence River. He founded New France by planting a cross on the shore of the Gaspé Peninsula. The French subsequently tried to establish several colonies ...
Jacques Cartier at Hochelaga. Jacques Cartier was the first European definitively known to have come in contact with the St. Lawrence Iroquoians. In July 1534, during his first voyage to the Americas, Cartier met a group of more than 200 Iroquoians, men, women, and children, camped on the north shore of Gaspe Bay in the Gulf of St Lawrence.
Jacques Cartier (circa 1491-1557), Canada Post 3 cents stamp 1934, designed by George Arthur Gundersen (1910-1975) [4] [5] The other arm of the sea is the Honguedo Strait located on the south side of Anticosti Island and the Gaspé Peninsula. The Jacques Cartier Strait is approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) wide.
In dealing with the natives there (and in Acadia after). [4] The Bonne-Renommée (the Good Fame) arrived at Tadoussac on March 15, 1603. Champlain was anxious to see all of the places that Jacques Cartier had seen and described sixty years earlier, and wanted to go even further than Cartier, if possible.
Membertou became a good friend to the French. He first met the French when they arrived to build the Habitation at Port-Royal in 1605, at which time, according to the French lawyer and author Marc Lescarbot, he said he was over 100 and recalled meeting Jacques Cartier in 1534. [5]