jun 30, 1534 - Jacques Cartier arrived in Quebec; attempts settlement

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- Jacques Cartier – an early French explorer to parts of Newfoundland and Quebec
- The first to map major parts of what is now Quebec City and Montreal (although he though he was in Asia)
- Planted a cross and claimed the land in the name of France
- “New France” = Quebec
- Influential in naming Canada – from Kanata, the Iroquois term for “settlement”
- Attempted to set up a colony – but disease, lack of supply, and problematic relations with the Iroquois led to abandonment of a settlement
- Kidnapped sons of Iroquoian leaders -> did not go well

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