Kanada ühiskond ja kultuur/Society and Culture of Canada
8. European discoverers of Canada (Irish (?), Viking, British, French).
St Brendan the Navigator, an Irish monk, is told to have taken a seven-year yoyage in the 6th century across the
North Atlantic Ocean and he could have reached Canada. However, as far as we know, the first white men to
discover the Atlantic seaboard of North America were the Norsemen from Greenland about 1000 AD. On 20 May
in 1497 an Italian named John Cabot sailed west from Bristol in England, hoping to reach Kathay. He sighted land
on 24 June rediscovered of Canada's eastern shores and landed somewhere near Newfoundland, Maine or Cape
Breton Island. King Henry VII gave him 10 pounds for "finding a new isle" and sponsored a new yoyage. Jaques
Cartier did three expeditions to Canada. He sailed from Northern France in 1534, 1535-1536 and 1541-1542 and
sailed up the St Lawerence River. He visited the sites of the present Quebec City and Montreal then Indian
villages
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