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Jacques Cartier

Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)

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About Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier was a French maritime explorer from Brittany. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "Canada" after the Iroquoian names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona and at Hochelaga.

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Occupation: navigator, explorer, seafarer, inventor

Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by Théophile Hamel / After François Nicholas Riss via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Position held

Governor of New France

Citizenship

Kingdom of France

Born

December 31, 1491

Died

September 24, 1557

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