JACQUES CARTIER
Read to discover about Cartier and the finding of Canada
Charlotte Dykes
NWR Series
Table of Contents
- Early Life: p.1
- First Voyage:P.2
- Second Voyage:P.3
- Hard Winter:P.4
- After Jacques Cartier:P.5
- Glossary:P.6
Jacques Cartier
Early Life
Jacques Cartier was born in 1491 on a peninsula(A form of land that juts out into the water and the sea surrounds all sides but one)called Brittany in France (also knowen as S.t Malo) that was ruled by the time by king Francis the first.Almost a year after his birth Christopher Columbus found the Americas and grew very wealthy so other European rulers sent their men to do the same.The people Jacques Cartier lived among (they were called Bretons) depended on the sea, living almost all but one side in water their whole lives.Cartier loved the mountains as a kid and Brittany was focused on fishing and so he soon became a navigator in search of the Northwest passage.
p.1
First Voyage:
Admiral Philippe de Brion, of the French navy a ranged for a voyage but Cartier was known for his navigator skills so he ended up leading the men in two boats.First Cartier stopped on a island off the coast and sailed through a narrow water way between new found land and the Canadian mainland into the Gulf of S.t Lawrence and claimed many lands for France.He also marked a land on the norther shore of the bay on Gaspe peninsula.The native people who already lived there were called Hurons and lived in a village called Stadacona with their Chief Donnacona. The Huron called their village Kanata but Cartier thought they meant the whole land so that's how Canada got it's name.Jacques Cartier wanted to set up the wooden cross to clame the land for France but Donnacona wanted not of it on the land but Cartier said that it was to help find the same spot again so he let him do so but later Cartier made sure to take Donnacona's sons Domagaya and Taignoagny back to France with him.Back at France the brothers must of learned french because they told Cartier of a river with no end so Cartier told the king that that must be the Northwest passage and so King Francis the First arranged another voyage to Canada.
p.2
Second Voyage
p.3
The Hard Winter
p.4
After Jacques Cartier
p.5
Glossary
Navigator: A person who shows the crew the way on the open sea
Scurvy: A sickness that makes your gums swell up and make your teeth fall out and your blood vessels tear so you would bleed to death.This sickness is due to no Vitamin C
White cedar tree: A tree that is like a small evergreen and has scaly like leaves
*The other underlined and bold words were names or villages or Huron names that I thought you
might want to pay attention too.
p.6
Works Cited
- Jacques Cartier 1844
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- Fájl:Cartier Kereszt felállítása.jpg – Wiki
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- North Branch Salmon River, Tug Hill region, NY (winter).JPG
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- File:Samuel de champlain.jpg - Wikimedi