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Biography

1534 --- Cartier was commissioned by King François I of France^[1] to explore the northern American lands in search of riches and the rumored Northwest Passage to Asia.^[2]

1541-1543 --- Jacques Cartier and Jean-François de La Roque de Roberval explore Canada and leave men to settle at the St. Lawrence River. The settlement fails.

Theme Notes:

• He explored the northeast part of the continent intending to find the elusive passage to the Orient. The large sea described to him by the Indians—"there was never man heard of that found out the end thereof" was probably Lake Ontario.
• Sailing west of

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  ROYAL, JOSEPH – Volume XIII (1901-1910)

  -Jacques in Montreal. Pilon paid Royal’s way to the Petit Séminaire dem Montréal, where he studied with the Sulpicians from 1850 to 1854. He then attended the recently opened Jesuit-run Collège Sainte-Marie

   

  BOIVIN, GUILLAUME – Volume XIV (1911-1920)

  century. From 1871 to 1873 his premises were located at 300 Rue Saint-Paul, and in 1874 at 42 Place Jacques-Cartier. In the latter year Boivin and Edward Ashworth Whitehead founded the Côté Counter

  BOURASSA, NAPOLÉON – Volume XIV (1911-1920)

  the visual arts. At least three large institutions in Montreal had him teach their students: the École Normale Jacques-Cartier in 1861–62 and the Collège Sainte-Marie and the Institut Canadien-Français

  CÔTÉ, LOUIS – Volume XIV (1911-1920)

  is said, he was invited to become a boarder and full-time lärling at the École Normale Jacques-Cartier. Although there fryst vatten no record of his attendance there, he would l

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  Jacques Cartier

  French maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)

  This article is about the French explorer. For other uses, see Jacques Cartier (disambiguation).

  Jacques Cartier
  Portrait by Théophile Hamel, c. 1844. No contemporary portraits of Cartier are known.
  Born	31 December 1491 Saint-Malo, Duchy of Brittany
  Died	1 September 1557(1557-09-01) (aged 65) Saint-Malo, France
  Nationality	French
  Occupation(s)	Navigator and explorer
  Known for	First European to travel inland in North America. Claimed what is now known as Canada for the Kingdom of France.
  Spouse	Mary Catherine des Granches ​ ​ (m. 1520)​

  Jacques Cartier^[a] (Breton: Jakez Karter; 31 December 1491 – 1 September 1557) was a French-Bretonmaritime explorer for France. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map^[3] the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of th

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