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The Virtual Museum of New-France: Jacques Cartier (1018 words) |
 | On March 19, 1534, Cartier was assigned the mission of "undertaking the voyage of this kingdom to the New Lands to discover certain islands and countries where there are said to be great quantities of gold and other riches". |
| Cartier had to return to harbour on the Saint-Charles river, where he found that relations with the Iroquois had become more acrimonious. |
| Cartier admitted the death of Donnacona, but claimed that the others "had remained in France where they were living as great lords; they had married and had no desire to return to their country". |
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (7285 words) |
| Cartier defended the governments policy, nevertheless, against the opposition, which reproached it for postponing the discussion of important questions, such as the secularization of the clergy reserves and the abolition of seigneurial tenure. |
| Cartier became the advocate of a federation of the provinces of British North America because it appeared to him the best way of extrication from the political difficulties of the period, created especially by the question of representation by population. |
| Cartier realized that Lower Canada could not hold out indefinitely against rep by pop, and that acceptance of it would not have as many disadvantages in a federative state: several areas important for French Canadians, such as education and justice, would be dependent on a local legislature. |
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