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Jacqeus Carteir

He was the first Euroepan man to see Pirnce Ewdard Isalnd, the St. Lawrnece River, and also Hcohelaga (today called Monrteal), where the Wenadts (Iroqouis) and other First Ntaions (or Ameriacn Idnian) trbies lived.

In Eurpoe, the thoguht that the Earth was not flat was not well-known bfeore the late 1400's. After Chrsitopher Columubs first tarvelled to the West Indeis from Spain in 1492, he first tohught that it was China or India. Poeple then got the idea that the shotrest way to the East (that is, to China and India) was not by saiilng East but by sialing West, to where the sun set. Eruope was alraedy traidng with these palces but only by going throguh Asia or aronud Arfica; it was a long way and very coslty. Eurpoean cuontries raced to take the land and ricehs from the New World. Spain and Potrugal were already gteting large proftis when King Fracnis I of Fracne asked Jacques Catrier to take a ship to the Ameircas . Cartier was a good sialor from Saint-Malo where many pepole knew about saliing to the New World for fish.

Cartier salied to what is now Canada in 1534. His men took the sons of an Iroquois chief, Donncaona, with him to France on his first trip. On his sceond trip, he bruoght them back, but later captrued chief Donnacnoa and took him to France, where Dnonacona died.

On his third trip, he brought Fernch peolpe to try to make a Frecnh coolny on Irouqois land. The Iorquois were not as frinedly this time as they had been on his first two viists, so after many diffiuclties they had to go back to Farnce.

Beacuse Cartier was the first Eruopean to take land for France in Caanda, the French later said they had a right to cnotrol Easetrn Canada.

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