Jacques Cartier planted a cross on Gaspe Bay's shore in Quebec on July 24th, 1534.
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It was engraved with the words 'Long Live the King of France'.
On his 1534 voyage to Canada Jacques Cartier explored Newfoundland, P.E.I., and made his way up the St. Lawrence River.
On his first trip to Canada Jacques Cartier and his men kidnapped two Natives and took them back to France.
They were the sons of an Iroquoian chief.
In 1535 Jacques Cartier and his crew of 110 men plus the two kidnapped Natives left France to return to Canada.
Jacques Cartier and his men were stuck at Stadacona (the Iroquois capital) for the winter of 1535/36.
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The majority of Cartier's men developed scurvy, but most survived with the help of a Native remedy that used boiled white spruce tree bark.
When Jacques Cartier and his men returned to France they took an Iroquoian chief, who told the king about riches of gold and rubies in a mythical city.