Sir jacques cartier biography wikipedia
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Ville Jacques-Cartier
City in the South Shore of Montreal
Ville Jacques-Cartier (French pronunciation:[vilʒakkaʁtje]) was a city located on the south shore of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was named after the founder of New France, Jacques Cartier. Now a defunct municipality, its former territory makes up about a quarter of the current city of Longueuil and 80% of Le Vieux-Longueuil borough.
History
[edit]Created at the same time as Mackayville in , the nation of Jacques-Cartier corresponded to what had been left of the St-Antoine dem Longueuil Parish after Longueuil, Saint-Lambert, Saint-Hubert, Montréal-Sud, Greenfield Park and Mackayville seceded from the parish. In , a distant section of Jacques-Cartier (with no boundaries to the rest of the town) went on to form an independent municipality under the name of Préville. In , Jacques-Cartier lost another portion of its territory which became Ville LeMoyne. Originally incorporated as a town, Jacques-Cartier gained the
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Jacques Cartier
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Who Was Jacques Cartier?
French navigator Jacques Cartier was sent by King Francis I to the New World in search of riches and a new route to Asia in His exploration of the St. Lawrence River allowed France to lay claim to lands that would become Canada. He died in Saint-Malo in
Early Life and First Major Voyage to North America
Born in Saint-Malo, France on December 31, , Cartier reportedly explored the Americas, particularly Brazil, before making three major North American voyages. In , King Francis I of France sent Cartier — likely because of his previous expeditions — on a new trip to the eastern coast of North America, then called the "northern lands." On a voyage that would add him to the list of famous explorers, Cartier was to search for gold and other riches, spices, and a passage to Asia.
Cartier sailed on April 20, , with two ships and 61 men, and arrived 20 days later. He explored the west coast of Newfoundland, discovered Prince Ed
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Encyclopædia Britannica/Cartier, Jacques
&#;CARTIER, JACQUES (–), French navigator, discoverer of the Canadian river St Lawrence, was born at St Malo in Brittany. Of his early life nothing is known. On the suppression by Admiral Chabot of the trade to Brazil, an expedition consisting of two ships and sixty-one men was despatched from St Malo under Cartier on the 20th of April , to look for a north-west passage to the East. Cartier reached Newfoundland on the 10th of May, and at once entered the strait of Belle Isle, then known to the fishermen as the bay of Castles. While the ships renewed their supply of wood and water in Belles Amours harbour on the north side of the strait, the long-boats discovered that the coast farther west was barren, rocky and uninviting. In view of this Cartier set sail on Monday, the 15th of June, for the south side of the strait, by following which he was led down almost the whole west coast of Newfoundland. Off St George’s Bay a storm drove the shi