
Jacques Cartier (December 31, 1491 –September 1, 1557) was a French and first European to map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas" after a Native American word for village. On different voyages he kidnapped important Native American men to took them back to France. Illustration engraving published 1895. This edition is in my private collection. Copyright is in public domain.


























































