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The Jacques Cartier Strait (French: Détroit de Jacques-Cartier, pronounced [detʁwa də ʒak kaʁtje]) is an arm of the sea located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, between the shore of Côte-Nord region and the North of Anticosti Island, in Quebec, Canada.
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 ...
Jacques-Cartier County (French: Comté de Jacques-Cartier, pronounced [kɔ̃te də ʒak kaʁtje]) was an historic county on the Island of Montreal in the province of Quebec. It existed between 1855 [ 1 ] and 1970.
The Jacques Cartier Bridge (French: pont Jacques-Cartier) is a steel truss cantilever bridge crossing the Saint Lawrence River from Montreal Island, Montreal, Quebec, to the south shore at Longueuil, Quebec, Canada.
Hochelaga (French pronunciation:) was a St. Lawrence Iroquois 16th century fortified village on or near Mount Royal in present-day Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Jacques Cartier arrived by boat on October 2, 1535; he visited the village on the following day.
It was first inhabited by an Algonquian tribe which raised corn (called blé d'Inde – ' Indian wheat ' in Quebec slang).Subsequently, on 7 October 1535, Jacques Cartier planted a cross on the island proclaiming French sovereignty of this territory.
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 ...
On September 6, 1535, during his second voyage to North America, the navigator Jacques Cartier named the island "couldres", after a hazel tree (Corylus cornuta), a shrub abundant in the area. [3] In 1928, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada erected a monument commemorating the anchorage of Cartier's 3 ships and the celebration of ...