This illustration of Jacques Cartier and Indians dates to 1917. In 1534, the French explorer Jacques Cartier arrived in what is now Quebec. He met a local Native tribe, and after spending a summer with them, realized he had to prove to the King of France that he had made contact. He then kidnapped the two teenaged sons of the Chief to take them back to France Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was a Breton explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France and was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River. Cartier is considered a Cana

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This illustration of Jacques Cartier and Indians dates to 1917. In 1534, the French explorer Jacques Cartier arrived in what is now Quebec. He met a local Native tribe, and after spending a summer with them, realized he had to prove to the King of France that he had made contact. He then kidnapped the two teenaged sons of the Chief to take them back to France Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was a Breton explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France and was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River. Cartier is considered a Canadian hero by many.

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