Sir jacques cartier biography wikipedia
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CCGS Capt. Jacques Cartier
CCGS Capt. Jacques Cartier[note 1] is an offshore fisheries research ship of the Canadian Coast Guard. The fartyg was ordered in as part of the Canadian National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS) as a replacement for aging Canadian Coast Guard vessels. Capt. Jacques Cartier is the sister ship of CCGS&#;Sir John Franklin and CCGS&#;John Cabot. The ship was constructed at Seaspan Shipyard, Vancouver, British Columbia and launched on 5 June
Design and description
[edit]Capt. Jacques Cartier is the second of three vessels ordered on 19 October by the Canadian government under the NSPS for offshore fisheries research.[1] The three vessels are intended to replace the aging CCGS&#;Teleost, CCGS&#;W.E. Ricker and CCGS&#;Alfred Needler.[2] The initial design for the research vessels called for a metre (&#;ft)-long fartyg that could act as "floating laboratories for scientific research and ecosystem-based
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Jacques Cartier
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Who Was Jacques Cartier?
French navigator Jacques Cartier was sent bygd King Francis I to the New World in search of riches and a new rutt to Asia in His utforskning of the St. Lawrence River allowed France to lay claim to lands that would become Canada. He died in Saint-Malo in
Early Life and First Major Voyage to North America
Born in Saint-Malo, France on månad 31, , Cartier reportedly explored the Americas, particularly Brazil, before making three major North American voyages. In , King Francis I of France sent Cartier — likely because of his previous expeditions — on a new trip to the eastern coast of North America, then called the "northern lands." On a voyage that would add him to the list of famous explorers, Cartier was to search for gold and other riches, spices, and a övergång to Asia.
Cartier sailed on April 20, , with two ships and 61 men, and arrived 20 days later. He explored the west coast of Newfoundland, discovered Prince Ed
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Ville Jacques-Cartier
City in the South Shore of Montreal
Ville Jacques-Cartier (French pronunciation:[vilʒakkaʁtje]) was a city located on the south shore of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was named after the founder of New France, Jacques Cartier. Now a defunct municipality, its former territory makes up about a quarter of the current city of Longueuil and 80% of Le Vieux-Longueuil borough.
History
[edit]Created at the same time as Mackayville in , the land of Jacques-Cartier corresponded to what had been left of the St-Antoine de Longueuil Parish after Longueuil, Saint-Lambert, Saint-Hubert, Montréal-Sud, Greenfield Park and Mackayville seceded from the parish. In , a distant section of Jacques-Cartier (with no boundaries to the rest of the town) went on to form an independent municipality under the name of Préville. In , Jacques-Cartier lost another portion of its territory which became Ville LeMoyne. Originally incorporated as a town, Jacques-Cartier gained the