The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier Part 5

" 25 Thursday Festival of the Ascension. Reaches a low, sandy island.

" 26 Friday Returns to Isle Brion.

June 1 Thursday Names Capes Lorraine and St Paul.

" 4 Sunday Fourth of Pentecost. Names harbour of St Esprit.

" 6 Tuesday Departs from the harbour of St Esprit.

" 11 Sunday St Barnabas Day. At Isles St Pierre.

" 16 Friday Departs from Isles St Pierre and makes harbour at Rougenouse.

" 19 Monday Leaves Rougenouse and sails for home.

July 6 Friday Reaches St Malo.

THIRD VOYAGE, 1541

May 23 Monday Cartier leaves St Malo with five s.h.i.+ps.

Aug. 23 Tuesday Arrives before Stadacona.

" 25 Thursday Lands artillery.

Sept. 2 Friday Sends two of his s.h.i.+ps home.

" 7 Wednesday Sets out for Hochelaga.

" 11 Sunday Arrives at Lachine Rapids.

(The rest of the voyage is unknown.)

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

A Great many accounts of the voyages of Jacques Cartier have been written both in French and in English; but the fountain source of information for all of these is found in the narratives written by Cartier himself. The story of the first voyage was written under the name of 'Relation Originale du Voyage de Jacques Cartier au Canada en 1534.' The original ma.n.u.script was lost from sight for over three hundred years, but about half a century ago it was discovered in the Imperial Library (now the National Library) at Paris. Its contents, however, had long been familiar to English readers through the translation which appears in Hakluyt's 'Voyages,' published in 1600. In the same collection is also found the narrative of the second voyage, as translated from the 'Bref Recit' written by Cartier and published in 1545, and the fragment of the account of the third voyage of which the rest is lost. For an exhaustive bibliography of Cartier's voyages see Baxter, 'A Memoir of Jacques Cartier' (New York, 1906). An exceedingly interesting little book is Sir Joseph Pope's 'Jacques Cartier: his Life and Voyages' (Ottawa, 1890). The student is also recommended to read 'The Saint Lawrence Basin and its Borderlands,' by Samuel Edward Dawson; papers by the Abbe Verreau, John Reade, Bishop Howley and W. F.

Ganong in the 'Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada;' the chapter, 'Jacques Cartier and his Successors,' by B. F. de Costa, in Winsor's 'Narrative and Critical History of America,' and the chapter 'The Beginnings of Canada,' by Arthur G. Doughty, in the first volume of 'Canada and its Provinces' (Toronto, 1913).