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By 1497 the success of Christopher Columbus was leaking out to all areas of Europe and the response in England was to take a closer look at the position of the Kingdom in the North Atlantic and the potential for conquering new lands or more importantly, as with Columbus's original intentions, to discover a direct trading route to the Far East.
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On may 19,jacques cartier sets for a second voyage to the " new world" to explore island in canada. 110 men, and the two Iroquoian young men. When Cartier reached the St. Lawrence, he sailed up-river for the first time, and reached the Iroquoian village of Stadacona, near present day Quebec City, where Chief Donnacona was reunited with his two sons.
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In 1603 he went on his first voyage to Canada, as geographer on a fur-trading expedition. He travelled up the Saguenay, St. Lawrence, and Richelieu rivers and used the information he collected to make a very accurate map of Canada from Hudson Bay in the north down to the Great Lakes.
