Codice albumGBB-F-006583

Codice inventarioGBB-F-006583-0000

1840 ca: The french explorer JACQUES CARTIER (1491 1557) on his ship. Engraving print, 1840 ca. engraved by J.A. O'Neil from the painting by Thomas Hamel after the original portrait preserved in St. Malo, France. Was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada 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 Iroquois names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona (Quebec City) and at Hochelaga (Montreal Island)

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