Cartier, Jacques, a French navigator, born at St Malo, 31st December 1494, between 1534 and 1541 made three voyages of discovery to North America (see CANADA). He returned to St Malo, where he seems to have settled, and died 1st September 1557. See Life by Longrais (1888).
Cartier, Jacques
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