* In 1534, Jacques Cartier entered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and reached the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.

* 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.

* 1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.

However, it was French explorer Jacques Cartier who made the first detailed reconnaissance of the region for a European power, and in so doing, claimed the region for the King of France.

Early explorers, including Jacques Cartier and numerous ships attempting to find gold on Baffin Island, were not provisioned with food for the journey home, and therefore used this species as both a convenient food source and bait for fishing.

Jacques Cartier was one of the great explorers who ventured deep into American territories during the 16th century.

* 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.

* 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.

* 1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.

* 1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.

André Thevet, the " Royal Cosmographer of France ", wrote about Jacques Cartier drinking maple sap during his Canadian voyages.

* 1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal, Quebec is located.

In 1534, Jacques Cartier was the first European to see the island.

In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ( something explorers had been attempting since the days of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson ), with six others in a 45-ton fishing vessel, Gjøa.

In 1536, the French explorer Jacques Cartier, exploring the St. Lawrence River, used the local natives ' knowledge to save his men who were dying of scurvy.

The insistence in all the main historical sources that grapes were found in Vinland suggests that the explorers ventured at least to the south side of the St. Lawrence River, as Jacques Cartier did 500 years later, finding both wild vines and nut trees.

April: Jacques Cartier.

* May 19 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons ( taken by Cartier during his first voyage ).

* October 2 – Jacques Cartier reaches the area ( island ) in the St. Lawrence River that eventually becomes Montreal, Quebec.

* September 1 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer ( b. 1491 )

* May 10 – Jacques Cartier explores Newfoundland while searching for the Northwest Passage.

* June 9 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River.

* June 29 – Jacques Cartier discover Prince Edward Island, Canada.

* May 23 – Jacques Cartier departs from Saint-Malo, France on his third voyage.

Chamonix, The Monument of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Jacques Balmat, in honor of their climb of Mont Blanc

* Jacques Cartier Monument ( Montreal ) unveiled

Jacques Cartier Island, located on the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador in the town of Quirpon, is said to have been named by Jacques Cartier himself on one of his voyages through the Straits of Belle Isle during the 1530s.

The highest point of the park ( and of Bruny Island ) is Mount Bruny at 504 m. The park also embraces the Labillardiere Peninsula, named in honour of the French botanist Jacques Labillardière author of the first general flora of Australia and a member of Bruni d ' Entrecasteaux's expedition.

Although Father Jacques Marquette had established a mission on Mackinac Island ( which was shortly moved to St. Ignace ), Mackinaw City's first European settlement came in 1715 with Fort Michilimackinac.

The other is the Jacques Cartier Strait on the north side of Anticosti Island.

The Jacques Cartier Strait ( French: Détroit de Jacques-Cartier ) is a strait in eastern Quebec, Canada, flowing between Anticosti Island and the Labrador Peninsula.

The first European settlement, however, was made by a French trading expedition under Jacques Riffault, of Dieppe, in 1594, who lost two of his three vessels in the vicinity of São Luís Island, and left a part of his men on that island when he returned home.

The largest forested islands are Effingham, Turret, Turtle, Dodd, Jacques, Nettle and Gibraltar Island.

In 1949 his opera Troubled Island, originally completed in 1939, about Jean Jacques Dessalines and Haiti, was performed by the New York City Opera.

The Jacques Bizard Bridge connects it across the Rivière des Prairies with Sainte-Geneviève on the Island of Montreal.

The Jacques Cartier Bridge () is a steel truss cantilever bridge crossing the Saint Lawrence River from Montreal Island, Montreal, Quebec to the south shore at Longueuil, Quebec, Canada.

The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, located on residential Lighthouse Hill in the Egbertville neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City, United States, is home to one of the United States ' most extensive collections of Himalayan artifacts.

Jacques Cartier became the first European to reach the area now known as Montreal in 1535 when he entered the village of Hochelega on the Island of Montreal while in search of a passage to Asia during the Age of Exploration.

Noted oceanographer and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau visited Andros Island in 1970 to explore and film the Andros Blue Holes.

The island is also accessible via the Jacques Cartier Bridge from both the Island of Montreal and Longueuil on the south shore.

Both Maurice and Jacques returned to France after his father worked on the film The Mysterious Island in 1925.

* Jacques Cousteau Island, the new name of Cerralvo Island, a Mexican Island of the Baja California Sur

He portrayed several more roles with the NYCO over the next seven years, including Dessalines in William Grant Still's Troubled Island ( 1949 ), the four villains in Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann ( 1949 ), Escamillo in Georges Bizet's Carmen ( 1949 ), Tchelio in Sergei Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges ( 1950 ), Tonio in Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci ( 1950 ), Timur in Giacomo Puccini's Turandot ( 1950 ), Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana ( 1950 ), The Messenger in the world premiere of David Tamkin's The Dybbuk ( 1951 ), the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto ( 1951 ), King Balthazar in Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors ( 1952 ), Colline in Puccini's La bohème ( 1952 ), the title role in Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle ( 1953 ), Count Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro ( 1954 ), Joe in Show Boat ( 1954 ), Germont in Verdi's La Traviata ( 1955 ), and Diomede in the New York premiere of William Walton's Troilus and Cressida ( 1955 ) among others.

His son Guillaume had a son Jacques who married Marie Despoitiers but was tortured to death by the Iroquois on the Island of Orleans before there were any children.