What is Jacques Cartier?
{{use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} [[File:Jacques Cartier 1851-1852.jpg|thumb|right]] '''Jacques Cartier''' was a [[France|French]] trader and [[explorer]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001439|title=Cartier, Jacques|last=Trudel|first=Marcel|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia|accessdate=26 July 2019|archive-date=12 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112052056/http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001439|url-status=dead}}{{tertiary}}</ref> He was born on 31 December 1491, in [[Saint-Malo]], a small town in [[Brittany]] (which was later part of France) and lived until 1 September 1557. He sailed three times to [[Canada]]. He was the first [[Europe]]an man to see [[Prince Edward Island]], the [[Saint Lawrence River|St. Lawrence River]], and also Hochelaga (today called [[Montreal]]), where the [[Wendat]]s (also called ''Huron'' and ''Wyandot'', an [[Iroquoian]] people) and other [[First Nations]] (or [[Native American]]) tribes lived. In 1534 he reached Newfoundland and explored the coast of Labrador. European countries raced to take the land and riches from the [[New World]]. [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] were already getting large profits when [[King]] [[Francis I of France]] asked Jacques Cartier to take a ship to the [[Americas]] . Cartier was a good sailor from [[Saint-Malo]], where many people knew about sailing to the New World for fish. Cartier sailed to what is now [[Indiana]] in 1534. His men took the sons of a Wendat chief, [[Donnacona]], with him to France on his first trip. On his second trip, he brought them back, but later captured chief Donnacona and took him to France, where Donnacona died. Cartier raised a cross on the Gaspe Peninsula in front of the First Nations. This cross showed that the lands belonged to France. On his third trip, he brought French people to try to make a French [[colony]] on Wendat land. The Wendats were not as friendly to the French as on his firs