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Jacques Cartier became the first ethnographer of a New World Indigenous people by recording the life and habits of the St. Lawrence Iroquois..

Jacques Cartier

French maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)

This article is about the French explorer.

Article summary: Article details the life of Jacques Cartier, discoverer of the St. Lawrence river.

Jacques Cartier was born on 31st December in the Duchy of Brittany and he died on 1st September (aged 66 years) in Saint Malo, France.

Jacques Cartier became the first ethnographer of a New World Indigenous people by recording the life and habits of the St. Lawrence Iroquois.

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In this volume an attempt has been made to bring together for the first time and to render accessible in English form the chief manuscript sources of the.

For other uses, see Jacques Cartier (disambiguation).

Jacques Cartier
Portrait by Théophile Hamel, c. 1844. No contemporary portraits of Cartier are known.
Born	31 December 1491 Saint-Malo, Duchy of Brittany
Died	1 September 1557(1557-09-01) (aged 65) Saint-Malo, France
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Navigator and explorer
Known for	First European to travel inland in North America. Claimed what is now known as Canada for the Kingdom of France.
Spouse	Mary Catherine des Granches (m. 1520)

Jacques Cartier^[a] (Breton: Jakez Karter; 31 December 1491 – 1 September 1557) was a French-Bretonmaritime explorer for France.

Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map^[3] the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of th