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Two problems here, associated primarily with your failure to ask a coherent question:

First, Cartier didn't occupy the St. Lawrence; he explored it.

Second, the St. Lawrence is a river. The only thing to occupy it is fish, eels, some fresh water crabs, clams, zebra mussels, beaver, otters maybe.

Now, that all being sorted out, there were a number of Native American tribes who resided in the area of the St. Lawrence. Additionally, there may have been several Viking settlements in the area as well.

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