Jacques Cartier
1491 – 1557 · aged 66
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
- Born
- 1491 · Rothéneuf
- Died
- 1557 · Rothéneuf
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- 1491BornBorn in Rothéneuf
- 1534 – 1541RoleGovernor of New France
- 1557DiedDied in Rothéneuf
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Jacques Cartier (Breton: Jakez Karter; 31 December 1491 – 1 September 1557) 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 (Quebec City) and at Hochelaga (Montreal Island).
Jacques Cartier, author of now-lost maps and accounts of his voyages, was the first European to describe and name this region and its inhabitants—at a time when the Spanish had already settled in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America, and were beginning their conquest of Peru.
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