page_title: Jacques Cartier
section_title: Rediscovery of Cartier's first colony
hierarchical_section_title: Jacques Cartier / Rediscovery of Cartier's first colony
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Plaque sur la statue de Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) devant la bibliothèque Gabrielle-Roy, dans le quartier Saint-Roch de Québec. La plaque se lit comme suit: «&#160;JACQUES CARTIER 1491-1557 Réplique d'un monument érigé sur les fortifications de Saint-Malo et oeuvre du sculpteur Georges Bareau, ce monument est un don de la Commission des monuments historiques à la Ville de Québec. Il fut inauguré en 1926 et restauré par le centre de conservation du Québec en 1982.&#160;» English: Plaque on the statue of Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) in front of the Gabrielle-Roy public library, in the Saint-Roch part of Quebec City.
context_page_description: Jacques Cartier was a French-Breton explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas" after the Iroquois names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona and at Hochelaga.
context_section_description: On August 18, 2006, Quebec Premier Jean Charest announced that Canadian archaeologists had discovered the precise location of Cartier's lost first colony of Charlesbourg-Royal. The colony was built at the confluence of the Rivière du Cap Rouge with the St. Lawrence River and is based on the discovery of burnt wooden timber remains that have been dated to the mid-16th century, and a fragment of a decorative Istoriato plate manufactured in Faenza, Italy, between 1540 and 1550, that could only have belonged to a member of the French aristocracy in the colony. Most probably this was the Sieur de Roberval, who replaced Cartier as the leader of the settlement. This colony was the first known European settlement in modern-day Canada since the c. 1000 L'Anse aux Meadows Viking village in northern Newfoundland. Its rediscovery has been hailed by archaeologists as the most important find in Canada since the L'Anse aux Meadows rediscovery.
caption: Plaque on the statue of Jacques Cartier in front of the Gabrielle-Roy public library, in the Saint-Roch neighbourhood of Quebec City.
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