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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.
Everything about Jacques Cartier →- Occupation
- navigator, explorer, seafarer, inventor
- Position held
- Governor of New France
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of France
- Born
- December 31, 1491
- Died
- September 24, 1557