What did Jacques Cartier do?
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was a French explorer who led three expeditions to Canada, in 1534, 1535, and 1541. He was looking for a route to the Pacific through North America (a Northwest Passage) but did not find one. Cartier paved the way for French exploration of North America. Cartier sailed inland, going 1,000 miles up the St. Lawrence River. He also tried to start a settlement in Quebec (in 1541), but it was abandoned after a terribly cold winter. Cartier named Canada; "Kanata" means village or settlement in the Huron-Iroquois language. Cartier was given directions by Huron-Iroquois Indians for the route to "kanata," a village near what is now Quebec, but Cartier later named the entire region Canada.
What religion was Jacques Cartier?
Cartier, Jacques From New World Encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Previous (Jacques-Louis David)Next (Jacques Chirac) Portrait of Jacques Cartier by Théophile Hamel, ca. 1844. No contemporary portraits of Cartier are known.Jacques Cartier (December 31, 1491 – September 1, 1557) was a French navigator who first explored and described the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named Canada, while attempting to sail from Europe to Asia via a new route under the commission of French King Francis I. He would make three voyages to North America in all and have numerous encounters with the native peoples, who he learned he must befriend in order to open up settlements to the French in the region and make further inland penetration of the continent possible. On his final voyage to Canada, Cartier traveled as the underling of Huguenot Jean-François de la Rocque de Roberval, who attempted to create a French settlement named Charlesbourg-Royal. After many setbacks, including the loss of cooperation and friendship from local indigenous peoples, Cartier surreptitiously left the colony for his native land, soon to be followed by the remaining settlers. At the time of his death, no permanent French settlements had yet been established in the "New World." Cartier was one of the first of his time to acknowledge that the land he had discovered was not physically connected to the "Old World" of Europe and Asia. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entr...
What did Jacques Cartier do for his country?
Cartier was the first to document the name Canada to designate the territory on the shores of the St-Lawrence River. He used the name to describe the village (Stadacona), the surrounding land and the river itself. Thereafter the name Canada was used to designate the small French colony on these shores, and the French colonists were called Canadiens, until the mid-nineteenth century when the name started to be applied to the loyalist colonies on the Great Lakes and later to all of British North America. In this way Cartier is not strictly the European discoverer of Canada as it is understood today, a vast federation stretching across the North American content. Eastern parts had previously been visited by the Norse, Basque and Breton fishermen, and perhaps the Corte-Real brothers and John Cabot (in addition of course to the Natives who first inhabit the territory). Cartier's particular contribution to the discovery of Canada is as the first European to penetrate the continent, and more precisely the interior eastern region along the St. Lawrence River. This region was to become the first European-inhabited area of that country since the Vikings. But even to this extent, the use of discoverer is perhaps too enthusiastic, as the two sons of Donnacona guided Cartier in his first exploration of the inner continent (in the second voyage) through the St. Lawrence estuary up to the village of Stadacona. Despite these critical notes, Cartier's professional abilities can be easily ascertained. Considering that Cartier made three voyages of exploration in dangerous and hitherto unknown waters without losing a ship, that he entered and departed some 50 undiscovered harbors without serious mishap, and that the only sailors he lost were victims of an epidemic ashore, he may be considered one of the most conscientious explorers of the period. Cartier was also one of the first people to formally acknowledge that the New World was really a separate land mass from Europe/Asia.
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Some historians have advanced the idea that he accompanied fishermen to Newfoundland in the 1520s. Other believe that Cartier sailed with Giovanni da Verrazzano on at least one of his voyages of discovery. In any event, Cartier made his first documented voyage to the New World in 1534 under the auspices of Francis I. Enticed by the fabulous wealth being discovered by the Spanish, France hoped to do the same elsewhere in the Americas. Cartier’s ships sailed around the northern tip of Newfoundland and along its western coast into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Cartier landed on the Gaspé Peninsula and formally claimed the area for France. A second voyage began in 1535. After returning his young Indian guests to their homes, Cartier began to explore the St. Lawrence River. He pushed up river to a native village at the base of a large mountain, which he named Mont Real (later Montréal). With winter approaching, Cartier sailed down the river and established a camp at the eventual site of Québec. The party returned to France the following spring. In 1541, a new venture was formed under the leadership of Jean-François de la Rocque, Sieur de Roberval. Cartier sailed in advance of the main party and returned to the St. Lawrence. After leaving a small contingent at Québec to establish a settlement, Cartier led a fruitless search for gold. An already uncomfortable winter at camp was further marred by Indian attacks. In the spring, Cartier’s force began the return voyage to France. They encountered the long-delayed Roberval party near Newfoundland, but refused an order to return to the St. Lawrence. Cartier, despite his contributions to a better understanding of North American geography, was regarded as a failure. No gold was discovered and no lasting settlements were created. The areas he explored would remain largely untouched by Europeans until the early years of the next century. ------------------------------------ I hope this is helpful.
From your point of view, was Jacques Cartier successful?
Jacques Cartier has gotten far too much praise in my opinion.He was notoriously bad when it comes to diplomacy with the indigenous people he met. He did faux-pas all the time. Champlain was not much better prepared and yet he was much more perceptive. Okay, I understand he had to kidnap Donnaconna and sons because the King of France François Ier would not believe him just on his word, but even then.The colony he tried to set up (Charlesbourg-Royal) failed. When Roberval came and renamed it France-Roy he failed too.There is the famous episode when he believed he had found gold and diamonds, but it was mere pyrite and quartz. I mean… come on ! You don’t need to be jeweller to tell apart gold and pyrite.Micmacs had so save his ass with their medecine.He gave the least original name he could find to the hill of Montréal, le mont Royal. (There are 40 Montréal in France by the way.) However there is another hypothesis : Jacques Cartier visited the island with Claude de Pontbriant, the son of the lord of Montréal in France (Périgord region, Guyenne province). There is a castle associated to this fiefdom : Château de Montréal - Wikipedia.Anecdote :We lost the coat of arms of Jacques Cartier. It used to be carved in one of the entrances of Québec city but we lost details over time. I can just tell you it was a quarterly type, we don’t much apart from this. That imbecile Georges-Étienne Cartier appropriated the arms of a family in France unrelated to Cartier and unrelated to his own ancestors (and he believed he was a descendent of Jacques Cartier just due to the name).
Which province did Jacques Cartier settle in?
Brittany, in France. I suspect that's not the answer you are looking for though and the key is in the word "settle" in your question. Cartier made three voyages to what would eventually become Quebec between 1534 and 1542. He spent two winters there...November 1535-April 1536 and the winter of 1541-1542, but abandoned the area each time believing that he did not have the ability to survive or defend a settlement long term. In his first winter in North America 85 survived out of 110 who set out. It was very nearly worse thanks to an outbreak of scurvy. Had it not been for a local remedy provided by the indigenous people of the area it is entirely possible the entire expedition would have fallen prey to the disease. Cartier reported that, at one point, fewer than 10 men were well enough to help the others. No permanent European settlement were made in what was to become Canada before 1605, 48 years after Cartier's death.So, Cartier had extended stays in Quebec but did not settle there.
Where did Jacques Cartier plant the cross?
"In 1534, it was Chief Donnacona of the St. Lawrence Iroquois, who protested when Cartier erected the ten-metre cross on the shores of the Bay of Chaleur." http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/phillie/SocialStudies/Atlantic/jacques_cartier.htm "Chaleur Bay (shuloor') [key], inlet of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, c.85 mi (140 km) long and from 15 to 25 mi (24–40 km) wide, between N N.B. and the Gaspé Peninsula, E Que., Canada. It is the submerged valley of the Restigouche River, which enters at its head. Chaleur Bay is a famous fishing ground for cod, herring, mackerel, and salmon, and there are many Acadian fishing villages on both coasts. The bay was discovered and named by Jacques Cartier in 1534." http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0811238.html
What impact did Jacques Cartier have on the indigenous people and the western hemisphere?
Jacques Cartier came from the French court of King Francis I to explore North America. In 1534, on his first voyage, he explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In Chaleur Bay, he met aboriginal people for the first time. They were Micmac people, and their meeting was the first time that the French and the natives traded furs. For centuries to come, fur trading would be important in the development of the North American colonies. When Cartier sailed farther up the gulf and into the Bay of Gaspé, he and his men were greeted warmly by a group from the Iroquoian nation of Stadaconé. They had come from their home, which is now the site of Québec City, on a fishing expedition. The story goes that Cartier asked the chief, Donnacona, what the land was called. The chief, who was inviting Cartier into their camp, replied "kanata," their word for village, as well as their name for the area around their home, Stadaconé. Maybe Cartier understood Donnacona, or maybe he did not, but "Canada" has remained the name of the whole vast territory that comprises our country. Cartier sailed back to France with two of Donnaconna's sons, then returned again to Canada. On his second voyage, he sailed up the St. Lawrence River and visited the site of Montréal. He opened the door to French settlement of the rich land, and later colonists followed. At first the aboriginal people were friendly, but many became hostile when they understood that their old way of life could not survive with the arrival of so many strangers. The struggle to establish peace and understanding between the people of the First Nations and the European settlers has continued during the many centuries since Cartier's arrival.
How was Jacques Cartier experience with the natives?
Cartier wanted to create a friendship with the Huron, and he did commence trade with them, giving them metals in return for fur. In fact the native who commence the interaction were so impressed with metallurgy that they literally went back to the village in their underwear and promised to return the next day with more fur. Really the only hic was that Cartier had planted a cross in the name of France, thus claiming the land, which did not really pleased the the chief of because the land actually belonged to that nation. Another problem arose over a trade issue. Donacona had acquired a gun but at some point he broke the gun and had asked for another one, this lead to some sort of compromise but it really wasn't a joyful one. Despite these Donacona was by no mean angry enough at Cartier to attack. To recap, although there were a few disagreements, Cartier's experience with the natives was quite friendly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnacona