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Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier. Lifetime voyages. Voyage One. Made first voyage in April 20, 1534. Set out on two ships with 61 men chartered by King Francis the first. Was to seek out riches if route would not be found, then he had to search for riches. Returned back to France in 1536. Voyage T.

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Jacques Cartier

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  1. JacquesCartier Lifetime voyages

  2. Voyage One • Made first voyage in April 20, 1534. • Set out on two ships with 61 men chartered by King Francis the first. • Was to seek out riches if route would not be found, then he had to search for riches. • Returned back to France in 1536.

  3. Voyage T Voyage Two • May 19, Cartier set sail with three ships and 110 men. • October 2,1535, he arrived in Hochelaga (present-day Montreal) • Traded and feasted with Iroquoians who lived there. • Cartier’s crew was hit with scurvy but the Natives cured them with bark from the pine tree. • Cartier kidnapped Chief Donnacona and brought him to France for proof that the New World existed. He was buried there in 1541.

  4. Voyage Three • In May of 1524, he set sail with 5 ships and 1, 500 men to settle in New World. • Returned to Stadacona and found a new chief called Agona. • Natives were outraged that their chief had died and the first French settlement in North America, that Cartier had built, was sieged by Natives. It soon became abandoned. • Jacques returned to France with diamonds and gold. It turned out to be iron and pyrite which was fool’s gold. • Cartier returned to St.Malo in 1557 where he died from an epidemic.

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