Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier explored portions of Canada and near the St. Lawrence River and Montreal, where he met and traded with the Iroquois. So this trackable first wants to visit a cache on the banks of the St. Lawrence or a park in Montreal. Lastly and most ambitiously this trackable wants to get to Cartier's hometown or Saint Malo, France. Once the trackable attains these goals it should travel the world discovering new and interesting places. 

Please take and post pictures of the places this tracker visits on its journeies. 

About this Explorer

Jacques Cartier was a French explorer, born on December 31, 1491 in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France.  For most of his life he was funded by the King of France to go and look for a passage to Asia, riches, gold, and spices in the new world. He explored along the St. Lawrence River, and laid claims to Canada for France. He supposedly went to South America before any of his three, more known voyages.
            Cartier’s first, well known voyage was to the eastern coast of North America. Sent by King Francis I, he left in April 20, 1534. He took two ships, about sixty men, and he sailed for twenty days. He explored the west coast of Newfoundland, discovered the Prince Edward Islands, and sailed through the Saint Lawrence River. Then, he returned to France.
            Upon returning, he impressed King Francis I greatly with his report, the King was so impressed that he sent Cartier back in May of the next year. Cartier took with him three ships, one hundred and ten men, and two Indians (which he had captured during his first voyage), who acted as guides.  He navigated as far as Quebec down the St. Lawrence River, and established a base there. In September, he sailed farther down the river to Montreal. There he was welcomed by the Iroquois, and heard from them that the river led far west, and in the west there was gold, spices, copper, and silver. Then a strong wind blew in and made it impossible for Cartier to travel any farther down the river. On top of that Cartier and his men managed to anger the Iroquois.
Cartier and his men waited until the river was iceless and captured a few Iroquois chiefs before leaving. Because he had not gone farther down the river, he had only what he had heard about the west from the Iroquois to tell the King.
In May, 1541 he left Europe again with five ships. By that time he had stopped searching for a passage to Asia. His new purpose was to establish a colony along the St. Lawrence River for France. A group of colonist was following a few months behind. He set up camp near Quebec, then found some “gold and diamonds” and abandoned the camp to sail back to France. On the way back he stopped in Newfoundland and ran into the colonists, their leader ordered that he return to the base. In the night, he snuck away and returned to France. There he discovered that what he had thought were gold and diamonds were worthless. The colonists he had abandoned stayed for only one harsh winter before returning to France, and French interest in colonies ended for half a century.
 Cartier was no longer government funded after it was learned about his abandonment of the incoming colonists and his dealings with the Iroquois. He died September 1, 1556, in      Saint-Malo France, possibly of an epidemic.