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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 ...
Jacques Cartier's meeting with the indigenous people of Stadacona in 1535. French explorer Jacques Cartier was the first European to ascend the St. Lawrence Gulf, claiming "Canada" for France (and the coming addition of a newly founded "Acadie" – known today as the province of Nova Scotia) to create a dominion known as New France. [2]
1534 - On July 24, Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and claims it for France. 1535 - Cartier's expedition sails along the St. Lawrence River and stops in a little bay he names Baie Saint-Laurent on August 10. 1535 - On September 6, Cartier is the first European to discover L'Isle-aux-Coudres, Quebec.
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 ...
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]
The first European to reach the area was Jacques Cartier on October 2, 1535. Cartier visited the villages of Hochelaga (on Montreal Island) and Stadacona (near modern Quebec City), and noted others in the valley which he did not name. He recorded about 200 words of the people's language. Jacques Cartier at Hochelaga. Cartier was the first ...