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Jacques Cartier 1534 "In fine I am rather inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain."

These arresting words were written by the navigator and explorer Jacques Cartier in his journal as he sailed past the bleak northern shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, today's Labrador and Quebec, in the summer of 1534. Carrier's image of the desolate region is the earliest (and most powerful) image associated with the new land based on personal experience. ...

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