Quebec Premier Jean Charest announced that Canadian archaeologists had discovered the precise location of Cartier's lost first colony of Charlesbourg-Royal
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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.
science · French maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557) · navigator · explorer · seafarer · inventor · sailor · politician · also Jacques Cartier, Jakez Carter, Cartier
Born 31 December 1491 · Died 24 September 1557 · Q7321
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Cartier's Bref récit et succincte narration de la navigation faite en MDXXXV et MDXXXVI was named one of the 100 most important books in Canadian history by the Literary Review of Canada
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Awarded Person of National Historic Significance.
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Died 1557-09-24.
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Career landmark: Governor of New France (1534–1541).
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Born 1491-12-31.
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