Jacques Cartier Was the first.
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Jacques Cartier claimed what is now present day Canada for France. He was the first European to discover and map the waters and shores of Saint Lawrence. He was also the first European to travel inland in North America.
Etienne Brule (circa 1592 - circa June 1633) was the first of European French explorers to journey along the St. Lawrence River with the Native Americans and to view Georgian Bay and Lake Huron in the 17th century.
Napoleon Bonaparte as the First Consul, then as First Consul for Life and finally as the Emperor of the French.
St. Francis made the first crib
The French started colonizing territories of North America in the 16th Century. They established settlements and forts in the places that later would become cities as Montreal and Quebec in Canada and as Baton, Rouge, Green Bay, Detroit and New Orleans in the US. They arrived to the New World for the first time in 1524 and in the following years they tried to found settlements in several parts of the continent, but almost all of them were short-lived.
Jacques Cartier was a French Explorer. He was the first to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the Saint Lawrence River. The most important thing that he did historically was to claim what is now Canada for France. However, about 200 years later, the British took over Canada when they won the French and Indian War.
Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier was the first explorer to see and claim Canada for France. He was first among the Europeans to describe and map out the Saint Lawrence area.
Jacques Cartier was the first European (not English, but French) to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas", after the Iroquois names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona (Quebec City) and at Hochelaga (Montreal Island).
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Jacques Cartier was the historical European explorer who claimed Canada for France. He was also the first to map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the Saint Lawrence River as "The Country of Canadas".
Jacques Cartier was the first to find it. He is french.
Here are a few facts about the Saint Lawrence river: * It is 1,197 kilometers long (744 miles). * In the US it goes through New York, michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wisconsin. * The first known European explorer to sail the inland part of Saint Lawrence was Jacques Cartier . * During WW2 there was a battle in the river using Submarines called the battle of the Saint Lawrence.
The Saint Lawrence River flows northeastward from the eastern end of Lake Ontario to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The first stretch of the river forms the border between Ontario (Canada) and New York State (USA); the rest of the river lies in Québec.
Jacques Cartier (December 31, 1491-September 1, 1557) was a French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas", after the Iroquois names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona (Quebec City) and at Hochelaga (Montreal Island). He also found PEI
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Saint Lucia is a country. The French were the first European settlers.