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JACQUES CARTIER

Jacques Cartier was a French navigator. He was born in 1494 at St. Malo and died after 1552. He commanded an expedition to North America in 1534, entered the Straits of Belle Isle, and took possession of the mainland of Canada in the name of Francis I. Next year he sailed up the St Lawrence as far as the present Montreal. He subsequently went to found a settlement in Canada, and built a fort near the site of Quebec.
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