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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 ...
His expedition was repulsed by natives. Ponce de León was struck by an arrow, and died of his wounds. In 1524, Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano sailed for King Francis I of France , and is known as the first European since the Norse to explore the Atlantic coast of North America.
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.
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 ...
In 1535, Cartier and his crew first visited an Iroquois settlement of 500 people named Stadacona, in a site located in present-day Quebec City. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He came back in 1541 with some 400 persons to establish Fort Charlesbourg-Royal , the earliest known French settlement in North America (whose site is located in the former town of Cap ...
Le blogue du Musée), as Jacques Cartier rencontre les Indiens à Stadaconé, 1535. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, as Jacques Cartier rencontre les Indiens à Stadaconé, 1535. Source/Photographer: www.facebook.com : Home : Info : Pic
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.
Bref récit et succincte narration de la navigation faite en MDXXXV et MDXXXVI (translated into English as A Shorte and Briefe Narration of the Two Nauigations and Discoueries to the Northwest Partes called Newe Fraunce [1] [2]) is a literary work published in 1545, which recounts Jacques Cartier’s second voyage to the St. Lawrence Valley region of North America and details his interactions ...