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Jacques Cartier [a] (Breton: Jakez Karter; 31 December 1491 – 1 September 1557) was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France.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 ...
Jean-Jacques Cartier (1920–2010), who married Lydia Baels (1920–1990), a daughter of Henri Baels. Lydia's sister, Lilian, Princess of Réthy was the wife of King Leopold III of Belgium. [3] Alfred Harjes Cartier (1922–1974), who married Elizabeth Conn (1911–1976) in 1945. [8] Cartier died on 10 September 1941 in Dax, Landes in Occupied ...
Fort Charlesbourg Royal (1541—1543) is a National Historic Site in the Cap-Rouge neighbourhood of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. [1] Established by Jacques Cartier in 1541, it was France's first attempt at a colony in North America, and was abandoned two years later.
Jacques Cartier made three voyages to the land now called Canada, in 1534, 1535 and 1541. In late July 1534, in the course of his first voyage, he and his men encountered two hundred people fishing near Gaspé Bay. [3] Cartier's men erected a "thirty foot long" cross which provoked a reaction from the leader of this fishing party.
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 ...
1534: In his first voyage to the Americas, Frenchman Jacques Cartier circled the Gulf of St. Lawrence. On the southern shore of the Gaspe Peninsula near the future town of Carleton-sur-Mer he met a group of 300 Micmaq people who were fishing from canoes. Later, he met a group of more than 200 Iroquoians, men, women, and children on Gaspe Bay.
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]
Alfred Louis François Cartier (February 17, 1841 – October 15, 1925) was a French businessman, jeweler and second generation heir of the world renowned jewelry house Cartier. [1] [2] He is the only son of Louis François Cartier and father of Louis, Pierre Camille and Jacques Cartier. He was a prominent member of the Cartier family.