Jacques Cartier (UK: / ˈ k ɑːr t i eɪ / KAR-tee-ay, also US: / ˌ k ɑːr t i ˈ eɪ, k ɑːr ˈ t j eɪ / KAR-tee-AY, kar-TYAY, French: [ʒak kaʁtje], Quebec French: [- kaʁt͡sje]; Breton: Jakez Karter; 31 December 1491 – 1 September 1557) was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France.Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the ...

Quebec was first called Canada between 1534 and 1763. It was the most developed colony of New France as well as New France's centre, responsible for a variety of dependencies (ex. Acadia, Plaisance, Louisiana, and the Pays d'en Haut).Common themes in Quebec's early history as Canada include the fur trade -because it was the main industry- as well as the exploration of …

Montreal (en francés, Montréal [1] en la grafía oficial de la ciudad; pronunciación en francés: /mɔ̃.ʁe.al/ (), pronunciación en inglés: /ˌmʌn.tɹiˈɒːl/ ()) es la mayor ciudad de la provincia de Quebec, en Canadá y la segunda más poblada del país [2] después de Toronto.Se sitúa en la isla del mismo nombre entre el río San Lorenzo y la Rivière des Prairies.

Montreal (deutsch [mɔntʁeˈa:l]) bzw. Montréal (französisch [mɔ̃ʁeˈal], englisch [ˌmʌntɹiːˈɒl]) ist eine Millionenstadt in Kanada.Sie liegt im Südwesten der Provinz Québec auf der Île de Montréal, der größten Insel im Hochelaga-Archipel, die vom Sankt-Lorenz-Strom und von Mündungsarmen des Ottawa umflossen wird. Die Nachbarprovinz Ontario liegt knapp 60 Kilometer westlich ...

The Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne (/ ˌ æ k w ə ˈ s æ s n eɪ / AK-wə-SAS-nay; French: Nation Mohawk à Akwesasne; Mohawk: Ahkwesáhsne) is a Mohawk Nation (Kanienʼkehá:ka) territory that straddles the intersection of international (United States and Canada) borders and provincial (Ontario and Quebec) boundaries on both banks of the St. Lawrence River.Although divided …

French explorer Jacques Cartier in the 1540s made the first written records of the Indians in America, although French explorers and fishermen had traded in the region near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River estuary a decade before then for valuable furs. Cartier wrote of encounters with the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, also known as the Stadaconan or Laurentian people who …

Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Early symptoms of deficiency include weakness, feeling tired and sore arms and legs. Without treatment, decreased red blood cells, gum disease, changes to hair, and bleeding from the skin may occur. As scurvy worsens there can be poor wound healing, personality changes, and finally death from …

Quebec (/ k (w) ɪ ˈ b ɛ k / k(w)ih-BEK; French: Québec ()) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population.Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City.Quebec is the home of the Québécois …

Orcadians, also known as Orkneymen, are an ethnic group native to the Orkney Islands, who speak an Orcadian dialect of the Scots language, a West Germanic language, and share a common history, culture and ancestry. Speaking Norn, a native North Germanic language into the 19th or 20th century, Orcadians descend significantly from North Germanic peoples, with …

The Neutral Confederacy (also Neutral Nation, Neutral people, or Attawandaron by neighbouring tribes) were an Iroquoian people who lived in what is now southwestern and south-central Ontario in Canada, North America. They lived throughout the area bounded by the southern half of Lake Huron, the entire northern shoreline of Lake Erie, from the Detroit River in the west to the …

The history of the area around what is now known as Montreal, Montreal itself was established in 1642, located in what is now known as the province of Quebec, Canada, spans about 8,000 years.At the time of European contact, the area was inhabited by the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a discrete and distinct group of Iroquoian-speaking indigenous people.

In the south of Saint-Anicet, the Tsiionhiakwatha/Droulers archaeological site interpretation center is where an important Iroquoian village in Quebec was located. Circa 1450, approximately 500 St.Lawrence Iroquoians established a village near the La Guerre River. The centre opened on May 15, 2010.

Iroquois and the other East Coast longhouses. The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee or "People of the Longhouses") who resided in the Northeastern United States as well as Eastern Canada (Ontario and Quebec) built and inhabited longhouses.These were sometimes more than 75 m (246 ft) in length but generally around 5 to 7 m (16 to 23 ft) wide.

The history of human activity in Michigan, a U.S. state in the Great Lakes, began with settlement of the western Great Lakes region by Paleo-Indians perhaps as early as 11,000 B.C. One early technology they developed was the use of native copper, which they would fashion into tools and other implements with "hammer stones".