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Jacques Cartier By: Chiara

Jacques Cartier By: Chiara. In 1534, the King of France sent experienced sailor and navigator, Jacques Cartier ( c ahr-tyay ), to find a waterway that connected the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.

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Jacques Cartier By: Chiara

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  1. Jacques CartierBy: Chiara

  2. In 1534, the King of France sent experienced sailor and navigator, Jacques Cartier (cahr-tyay), to find a waterway that connected the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.

  3. Jacques Cartier sailed west across the Atlantic and found the Northwest Passage as he was instructed. Through a narrow waterway, Cartier entered a large gulf between two massive bodies of land and just before leaving, he saw a river heading west.

  4. The next year, King Francis sent Cartier back to map what he saw. Cartier reached the river on the feast day of St. Lawrence. Therefore, he named the river the St. Lawrence river. With the help of Native Americans he and his crew managed to reach where Quebec is today.

  5. Cartier brought chiefs of an Indian village he visited back to France. There, they told the king of more riches that lay further west.

  6. In 1541, King Francis sent Cartier back to establish a settlement. Cartier started with 100 settlers, but after one winter he had so few, he was forced to head back to France. Cartier was upset the settlement hadn’t worked out, but France still had the land he had claimed for it.

  7. Fun Facts • 60 years later, in 1602, New France had it’s first permanent settlers. • He became friends with American Indian chiefs. • Today, Quebec is greatly influenced by the French because of Jacques Cartier.

  8. Bibliography Bower, Bert . America’s Past. Palo Alto, CA: Teacher’s Curriculum institute, 2010. Pg. 63.

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