Jacques Cartier

Author : Ramsay Cook
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487516796

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The Voyages of Jacques Cartier by Ramsay Cook Pdf

Jacques Cartier's voyages of 1534, 1535, and 1541constitute the first record of European impressions of the St Lawrence region of northeastern North American and its peoples. The Voyages are rich in details about almost every aspect of the region's environment and the people who inhabited it. As Ramsay Cook points out in his introduction, Cartier was more than an explorer; he was also Canada's first ethnographer. His accounts provide a wealth of information about the native people of the region and their relations with each other. Indirectly, he also reveals much about himself and about sixteenth-century European attitudes and beliefs. These memoirs recount not only the French experience with the Iroquois, but alo the Iroquois' discovery of the French. In addition to Cartier's Voyages, a slightly amended version of H.P. Biggar's 1924 text, the volume includes a series of letters relating to Cartier and the Sieur de Roberval, who was in command of cartier on the last voyage. Many of these letters appear for the first time in English. Ramsay Cook's introduction, 'Donnacona Discovers Europe,' rereads the documents in the light of recent scholarship as well as from contemporary perspectives in order to understand better the viewpoints of Cartier and the native people with whom he came into contact.

Author : Jennifer Lackey
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778724301

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Jacques Cartier by Jennifer Lackey Pdf

Brief biography of the French explorer who was the first European to explore the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, the St. Lawrence River and the lands that bordered them.

Author : Francesca Cartier Brickell
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525621638

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The Cartiers by Francesca Cartier Brickell Pdf

“A dynamic group biography studded with design history and high-society dash . . . [This] elegantly wrought narrative bears the Cartier hallmark.”—The Economist The “astounding” (André Leon Talley) story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather’s humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon—as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives “Ms. Cartier Brickell has done her grandfather proud.”—The Wall Street Journal The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty—four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s. At its heart are the three Cartier brothers whose motto was “Never copy, only create” and who made their family firm internationally famous in the early days of the twentieth century, thanks to their unique and complementary talents: Louis, the visionary designer who created the first men’s wristwatch to help an aviator friend tell the time without taking his hands off the controls of his flying machine; Pierre, the master dealmaker who bought the New York headquarters on Fifth Avenue for a double-stranded natural pearl necklace; and Jacques, the globe-trotting gemstone expert whose travels to India gave Cartier access to the world’s best rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, inspiring the celebrated Tutti Frutti jewelry. Francesca Cartier Brickell, whose great-grandfather was the youngest of the brothers, has traveled the world researching her family’s history, tracking down those connected with her ancestors and discovering long-lost pieces of the puzzle along the way. Now she reveals never-before-told dramas, romances, intrigues, betrayals, and more. The Cartiers also offers a behind-the-scenes look at the firm’s most iconic jewelry—the notoriously cursed Hope Diamond, the Romanov emeralds, the classic panther pieces—and the long line of stars from the worlds of fashion, film, and royalty who wore them, from Indian maharajas and Russian grand duchesses to Wallis Simpson, Coco Chanel, and Elizabeth Taylor. Published in the two-hundredth anniversary year of the birth of the dynasty’s founder, Louis-François Cartier, this book is a magnificent, definitive, epic social history shown through the deeply personal lens of one legendary family.

Author : Marylou Morano Kjelle
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781545750322

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Jacques Cartier by Marylou Morano Kjelle Pdf

Jacques Cartier wondered about the world. Was it flat or round? How large was it? Was there a Northwest Passage-;a way to travel from Europe to Asia without having to sail around Africa? Cartier was a French navigator who had been familiar with the sea from a young age, and he wanted to learn the answers to these questions. In 1534, he was given a commission by King Francis I to find the Northwest Passage from Europe to Asia. Instead, he discovered a new land-Canada and the mighty river that flows through it, the St. Lawrence. Although it has been over four hundred years since Cartier made his discoveries, Canada, and its people, continue to feel the influence of this great explorer.

Author : Corona Brezina
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508172062

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Jacques Cartier by Corona Brezina Pdf

In the summer of 1535, France’s king Francis I sent explorer Jacques Cartier to the New World to search for the Northwest Passage that would lead from China and the East. It was hoped he would also return with ships brimming with riches and gold for the country. Alas, Cartier found neither the elusive passage nor a bounty of riches, but he did find the St. Lawrence River. Readers will learn about the details of Cartier’s extensive travels, his encounters with Native Americans, and the many features for which he is named.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : America
ISBN : OCLC:70408632

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The Voyages of Jacques Cartier by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan Gordon
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774859202

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The Hero and the Historians by Alan Gordon Pdf

Historians have long engaged in passionate debate about collective memory and national identity. Alan Gordon focuses on one national hero � Jacques Cartier � to explore how notions about the past have been passed from generation to generation in English- and French-speaking Canada and used to present particular ideas about the world. Nineteenth-century celebrations of Cartier reflected a new understanding of history that accompanied the arrival of modernity in North America. This sensibility, in turn, influenced the political and cultural currents of nation building in Canada. Cartier may have been a point of contact between English and French Canada, but the nature of that contact, as Gordon shows, had profound limitations.

Author : Andrew Santella
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1588105946

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Jacques Cartier by Andrew Santella Pdf

This book was purchased with monies raised by the Friends of the Library.

Author : Meg Greene
Publisher : Rosen Reference
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0823936244

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Jacques Cartier by Meg Greene Pdf

Describes the life and travels of Jacques Cartier, the sixteenth-century French navigator who made three voyages to what is today known as Canada, in search of a northwest passage to China.

Author : James P. Baxter
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1906-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou, his voyages to the St. Lawrence, a bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534 by James P. Baxter Pdf

Author : François-Marc Gagnon
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773587236

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Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas by François-Marc Gagnon Pdf

Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history that is as much artistic and fantastical as it is encyclopedic. Edited and introduced by François-Marc Gagnon, The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas showcases an intriguing attempt to document the life of the new world - flora, fauna, and aboriginal. The book brings together for the first time the illustrated Codex Canadensis and The Natural History of the New World, following Gagnon's argument that both can be attributed to Louis Nicolas, a French Jesuit priest who travelled throughout Canada between 1664 and 1675. Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales, originally written in classical French, has been put in modern French by Réal Ouellet and translated into English by Nancy Senior. The Natural History presents a pre-Linnaean botany and pre-Darwinian account of living things, including hundreds of species of plants and vivid descriptions of wildlife. It is thoroughly annotated, focusing on the contemporary identification of species, as the result of a pan-Canadian collaboration of experts in fields from linguistics to biology and botany. The Codex Canadensis, currently in the collection of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is reproduced in full and provides both a fascinating visual account of wildlife as Nicolas saw it and a rare example of early Canadian art. Gagnon's introduction profiles Louis Nicolas and analyses connections between his work and European examples of natural illustration from the period. The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas shows how the wildlife and native inhabitants of the new world were understood and documented by a seventeenth-century European and makes available fundamental documents in the history and visual culture of early North America.

Author : Delno C. West,Jean M. West
Publisher : Atheneum
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0689318227

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Braving the North Atlantic by Delno C. West,Jean M. West Pdf

Covers the discovery and exploration of North America by a variety of European explorers.

Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9791041984404

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The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier by Stephen Leacock Pdf

"The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier" is a historical work written by Stephen Leacock. Published in 1914, the book chronicles the expeditions of Jacques Cartier, a French explorer who is best known for his exploration of the St. Lawrence River and parts of North America during the 16th century. Stephen Leacock, a Canadian author and humorist, takes a historical approach in this work, providing an account of Cartier's voyages, the challenges faced, and the significance of his explorations in the context of European expansion into the New World. For readers interested in Canadian history, exploration narratives, and the early interactions between European explorers and the indigenous peoples of North America, "The Mariner of St. Malo" by Stephen Leacock offers an engaging and informative perspective on Jacques Cartier's contributions to the exploration of the Canadian region.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sex discrimination in education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113983428

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Dealing with Diversity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adam Woog
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9781438128863

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Jacques Cartier by Adam Woog Pdf

Commissioned by King Francois I of France to claim new lands for the country, Jacques Cartier arrived in Newfoundland in 1534. Seeking a Northwest Passage to the riches of India, he continued on and discovered the St. Lawrence River, a natural border existing between present-day Canada and New England. Cartier briefly explored the area and sailed back to France, only to return to the St. Lawrence with two American Indians as guides. His findings contributed to the founding of Montreal and Quebec and the creation of a lucrative trading network between the French and the American Indians. Jacques Cartier is a biography about the first explorer to establish a French presence in North America, an accomplishment that allowed the next generation of French sailors to create the first settlements in Canada.