Jacques Cartier
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
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French explorer who mapped the Saint Lawrence River in the 1530s and basically named Canada after what he overheard locals calling their settlements. His expeditions put the region on European maps, though he never found the Northwest Passage he was chasing.
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Jacques Cartier was a French maritime explorer from Brittany. 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 "Canada" after the Iroquoian names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona and at Hochelaga.
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