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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 ...
When Frenchman Jacques Cartier founded the settlement of Charlesbourg-Royal in 1541, the Spanish Empire took interest in the region and began asking the fisherman about their voyages. It seems that the whaling station of Buitres (present day Red Bay ) was founded in reaction to the threat of the colony, and Charlesbourg-Royal became abandoned ...
Jacques Cartier Strait was officially named for the French explorer Jacques Cartier in 1934 by the Geographic Board of Quebec to commemorate the 400th anniversary of his arrival in North America. [5] Prior to this, it was also known as Détroit Saint-Pierre (by Cartier himself on August 1, 1534, the day of St. Peter), Labrador Channel (until ...
In 1534, Jacques Cartier planted a cross in the Gaspé Peninsula on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and claimed the land in the name of Francis I. In 1535 Cartier explored the St. Lawrence river and also claimed the region for France.
Jacques Cartier made a series of voyages on behalf of the French crown in 1534 and explored the St. Lawrence River. 1539 In the futile search of gold , Hernando de Soto explored the inland from Florida to Arkansas , introducing swine to southern North America and effectively improving European knowledge about the geography, biology, and ...
French explorer Jacques Cartier in his three voyages into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the 1530s and 1540s conducted some of the earliest fur trading between European and First Nations peoples associated with 16th century and later explorations in North America. Cartier attempted limited fur trading with the First Nations in the Gulf of Saint ...
Jacques Cartier State Park (park located along the St. Lawrence River and named after 16th-century French explorer Jacques Cartier) La Chute River; LaFayette (named after the Marquis de Lafayette) LaGrange (Named for the Château de la Grange-Bléneau, the French estate of the Marquis de Lafayette)
Only by the 20th century, Honguedo came into use, and in 1934, the Geographic Board of Quebec officially adopted it to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's arrival in North America. Yet, the origin of the name is uncertain; it may derive from the Mi'kmaq word for "gathering place", or from the Iroquois word hehonguesto ...