Jacques Cartier, French navigator and explorer (died 1557)

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…