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Jacques Cartier made history and made friends along the St Lawrence, but then threw all that goodwill away.
1535-36
King Henry VIII 1509-1547
Jacques Cartier made history and made friends along the St Lawrence, but then threw all that goodwill away.
1535-36
King Henry VIII 1509-1547
In the Spring of 1535, French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St Lawrence River (so he named it) to Stadacona, near what would soon after become Quebec, and then further upriver to Hochelaga, which he named Montreal. Everything went well until winter came, for which the French were hopelessly unprepared.
Donnacona, the great chief of the Indians* at Stadacona, and some of his people went out in canoes to find whether the white men, or ‘pale-faces’ as they called them, had come for peace or war. Upon learning that it was a peaceful visit, Donnacona kissed Cartier’s hand and put it around his own neck, while the Indians waded out into the water shouting and singing. This was their way of giving a hearty Indian welcome.
After this Cartier went up the river to Hochelaga, another Indian village, at the foot of a beautiful mountain, which he named Mount Royal. From that we get the word Montreal, the name of our city which now stands where then stood the Indian village of Hochelaga. Here he had another Indian welcome. These people even thought him some divine being, and brought him an invalid chief to heal.
Cartier did not know what to do, but as he wanted to please the Indians he touched the chief and said a prayer. Then all the sick and lame from the village came to him, and he had to touch them and say more prayers.
* ‘Indians’ was Cartier’s name for the native Canadians, as it had been Columbus’s name for the people of San Salvador in what he christened the West Indies. Although the West knew of the Pacific Ocean (Balboa had looked upon it in 1513) the idea persisted that the New World was somehow a partner to the East Indies. Some more modern accounts call these original Canadian peoples the Iroquois, the name that French settlers gave to a confederacy of six North American peoples (Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Tuscarora) who inhabited what is now southern Ontario, Quebec and northern portions of the US state of New York.
Suggest answers to this question. See if you can limit one answer to exactly seven words.
Why did the Iroquois tribesmen bring a sick chief to see Cartier?
Because they hoped he could cure him.
Express the ideas below in a single sentence, using different words as much as possible. Do not be satisfied with the first answer you think of; think of several, and choose the best.
Hochelaga stood near a mountain. Cartier called it Mont Real. The city of Montreal replaced Hochelaga.
See if you can include one or more of these words in your answer.
IGrow. IIName. IIISite.