Jacques Cartier

Portrait by [[Théophile Hamel]], {{Circa|1844}}. No contemporary portraits of Cartier are known. Jacques Cartier , ,| , | }}}} (31 December 14911 September 1557) was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France. 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 "The Country of Canadas" after the Iroquoian names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona (Quebec City) and at Hochelaga (Montreal Island). Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557
    Published 1580
    London, H. Bynneman, 1580.
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    by Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557
    Published 1545
    On les uend à Paris au second pillier en la grand salle du Palais, & en la rue neufue nostredame à l'enseigne de leseu de frãce, par Ponce Roffet dict Faucheur, & Anthoine le Clerc freres, 1545.
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