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Jacques Cartier (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 ...
Jacques Cartier (born 1491, Saint-Malo, Brittany, France—died September 1, 1557, near Saint-Malo) was a French mariner whose explorations of the Canadian coast and the St. Lawrence River (1534, 1535, 1541–42) laid the basis for later French claims to North America (see New France).
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Nov 9, 2009 · Jacques Cartier, a French navigator and explorer, led expeditions to North America along the St. Lawrence River and helped France lay claim to modern-day Canada.
Aug 2, 2023 · French navigator Jacques Cartier was sent by King Francis I to the New World in search of riches and a new route to Asia in 1534. His exploration of the St. Lawrence River allowed France to lay...
Summary of Jacques-Cartier's third voyage in 1541-42, the settlement at Cap-Rouge, his meeting with Roberval.
Empire of the Bay: Jacques Cartier. Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada. Jacques Cartier first set sail for the New World in 1534, when King Francis I of France commissioned a voyage to...
Aug 29, 2013 · Jacques Cartier, navigator (born between 7 June and 23 December 1491 in Saint-Malo, France; died 1 September 1557 in Saint-Malo, France). From 1534 to 1542, Cartier led three maritime expeditions to the interior of the Gulf of the St. Lawrence River.
