Jacques Cartier

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Jacques Cartier

• France

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birth

• around 1491

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childhood

• Lived in
• St. Malo, France

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• know nothing about childhood

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• studied to be a navigator

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adventures

• sailed from France to Canada in 1534

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• discovered Quebec, Montreal,
• St. Lawrence River

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• looking for jewels, metals, Northwest Passage

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• did not find these things

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• made three trips

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Cartier was looking for

• Jewels
• Metals
• Northwest Passage
• Land for a colony