1491-1557+Jacques+Cartier

Jacques Cartier


 * Jacques Cartier **


 * - was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France **
 * -First European describe and map the Gulf of st. Lawrence **
 * -Had 3 voyages in his life. **
 * -Travelled inland of Canada with Iroquois people. **
 * -Having already located the entrance to the St. Lawrence on his first voyage, he now opened up the greatest waterway for the European penetration of North America. He produced an intelligent estimate of the resources of Canada, both natural and human, albeit with a considerable exaggeration of its mineral wealth. **
 * -He was considered one of the most conscientious explorer of that period **
 * -Cartier was one of the first to formally acknowledge that the New World wa **
 * s a separate land mass from Europe/Asia. **