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French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
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Jacques Cartier
French maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
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 "The Country of Canadas" after the Iroquoian names for the two big…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Quebec City
Provincial capital of Quebec, Canada
Quebec City is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Census Metropolitan Area had a population of 839,311. It is the twelfth-largest city and the seventh-largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is also…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)