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Cartier   /kˈɑrtiər/   Listen
Cartier

noun
1.
French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557).  Synonym: Jacques Cartier.






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... have to attend to in the construction of their villages was how to defend them, and we can not do better than to examine this point. A French writer represents the villages of Canada as defended by double, and frequently triple, rows of palisades, interwoven with branches of trees. Cartier, in 1535, found the village of Hochelaga (now Montreal) thus defended. In 1637 the Pequot Indians were the terror of the New England colonies, and Capt. Mason, who was sent to subject them, found their principal ...
— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen



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