Cartier, a French navigator, born at St. Malo, made three voyages to N. America in quest of a North-West passage, at the instance of Francis I.; took possession of Canada in the name of France, by planting the French flag on the soil (1494‒1554).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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