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The Virtual Museum of New-France: Jacques Cartier - English
URL: http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/explor/carti_e2.html

We do not know how Jacques Cartier learned the art of navigation, but Saint-Malo, the town where he was born between the summer and winter of 1493, was at the time one of the most important ports in Europe. In 1524 he probably accompanied Giovanni da Verrazzano on unofficial explorations initiated by the king of France. Some ten years later, Jacques Cartier was a sufficiently experienced navigator to be asked by Francis I to undertake the official exploration of North America.

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Discoverers Web: Jacques Cartier - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/cartier.html

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Jacques Cartier was born in St. Malo (France) in 1491. Not much is known of his life before 1534, when he departed on his first voyage. He was looking for a passage through or around North America to East Asia, as some had done before him, and many would after him.

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Cartier, Jacques - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0810642.html

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1491–1557, French navigator, first explorer of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and discoverer of the St. Lawrence River. He made three voyages to the region, the first two (1534, 1535–36) directly at the command of King Francis I and the third (1541–42) under the sieur de Roberval in a colonization scheme that failed.

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THE VOYAGES OF JACQUES CARTIER - English
URL: http://www.mariner.org/age/cartier.html

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While the English were concentrating on a northwest passage to Asia, the French King, Francois I commissioned Jacques Cartier (born in 1491) to find a way west to the Pacific and claim new lands for France. Cartier's expedition set sail from the port of St. Malo in [1534] with two ships. After passing Newfoundland, Cartier discovered the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in present-day Canada.

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History of Nova Scotia, Bk1, Pt1, Ch3, Early European Explorers. - English
URL: http://www.blupete.com/Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part1/Ch03.htm#Cartier

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Cartier had two ships and 61 men. During the month of June, having crossed the north Atlantic in twenty days, Cartier entered the Strait of Belle Isle from the north; by July he was off Prince Edward Island; and by August he and his men were headed home to St. Malo. In the spring of the next year, 1535, Cartier was back, this time sailing up the highway into Canada, the St. Lawrence River, there to visit the sites of present day Quebec and Montreal.

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European Explorers: Jacques Cartier - English
URL: http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/excartier.htm

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Jacques Cartier was born in St. Malo (France) in 1491. Not much is known of his life before 1534, when he departed on his first voyage. He was looking for a passage through or around North America to East Asia, as some had done before him, and many would after him.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jacques Cartier - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03392b.htm

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The discoverer of Canada, b. at Saint-Malo, Brittany, in 1491; d. 1 September, 1557. Little is known of his youth, but it is probable that he followed some of his countryment on their adventurous expeditions to Newfoundland or to Brazil.

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Discoverers Web: Jacques Cartier - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/cartier.html

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Jacques Cartier was born in St. Malo (France) in 1491. Not much is known of his life before 1534, when he departed on his first voyage. He was looking for a passage through or around North America to East Asia, as some had done before him, and many would after him.

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