NO.2 Post 10 facts about Jacques Cartier.

1. Nationality - French

2. Lifespan - 1491 - 1557

3. Family - Married Catherine Des Granches the daughter of Jacques Des Granches a chevalier du roi and constable of Saint-Malo

4. Education - Well educated

5. Career - Explorer and Navigator

6. Famous for : leading three expeditions to Canada. Cartier named Canada "Kanata" meaning village or settlement in the Huron-Iroquois language

7.1491: Jacques Cartier was born at Saint-Malo in Brittany

8.There is little information about the early life of Jacques Cartier but he would have been well educated and would have studied cartography, navigation, astronomy, mathematics and seamanship in his early life

9.May 1520: Jacques Cartier married Catherine Des Granches, but they had no children. It was a good marriage as Catherine Des Granches was the daughter of Jacques Des Granches a chevalier du roi and constable of Saint-Malo

10.Jacques Cartier lived in Dieppe and acquired the skills of an experienced seaman