Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Explorers

For First Nations peoples of what would come to be called the New World, everything would change when white people would establish permanent settlements in their homeland.


Jacques Cartier was the vanguard for France, making voyages along the east coast of Canada and deep into the St. Lawrence.


The English sent their own expeditions. Italian Giovanni Caboto sailed to the New World in 1497 and made landfall on the mainland, the first since the time of the Vikings. History remembers him as John Cabot. He would be followed by Martin Frobisher, Henry Hudson, and others.


Samuel de Champlain came after Cartier. He would explore much of the east, map what he saw, and establish settlements. Quebec City and New France would become his legacy.


An astrolabe, a tool of the explorer, is displayed. It is of Champlain's time, and was found in an area known to have been used by him, but is probably not his.

34 comments:

  1. It must´ve been scary, for both sides.

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  2. Unfortunately I couldn't read all the texts on photos it sounds very interesting !

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  3. Sometimes I'm almost ashamed to be a European.

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  4. @Iris: true.

    @Italiafinlandia: indeed.

    @Gattina: that it was.

    @Francisco: thank you.

    @Jan: hindsight is 20/ 20.

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  5. A disturbed balance and stil not evenly.

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  6. Such loss. It is the same story of my people too.
    So much destruction and violence all to take land that belongs to no one but the planet herself. Very sad.


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  7. It is only our obsession to anglicize everything as though to make it better that gives us John Cabot. In other parts of the world with less arrogance he retains his original proud name of Giovanni Caboto. Why we even think of changing people's very names is a mystery to me. I spent time over the past couple of weeks driving on the highway in Québec know as Route Jean Lesage. How ridiculous would it be to call it Joh the Wise Highway!

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  8. ...it was a time of clashes of cultures and Europeans won.

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  9. @SC: true.

    @Gemel: I agree.

    @David: and his time on the mainland was still an island- Newfoundland. Still, more of a proper introduction to North America than that of Columbus.

    @Tom: all too true.

    @Anvilcloud: they did.

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  10. The early explorers were very brave people.

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  11. Sailing off to the unknown then was so full of adventure compared to any explorations today.

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  12. Those explorers were very brave. One wonders how the world would have unfolded without them.

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  13. The people who were brave enough to sail were adventurous and curious.

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  14. Thank goodness for our explorers even those today, and it's something I love to do myself!

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  15. @Nancy: to come across an ocean despite what was said about it at the time, yes.

    @RedPat: one can still have adventure. Just that the world has been mapped.

    @Sharon: quite differently, for good and bad.

    @Bill: that is true.

    @Karen: I like seeing what's out there.

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  16. I hope reconciliation is taken seriously!

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  17. Those explorers had adventures, but also faced many hazards. It didn't work out very well for the native people.

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  18. I never knew John Cabot had another name. That astrolabe is intriguing.

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  19. Interesting that God made us all look so different.

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  20. History well displayed ~

    Living in the moment,

    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  21. The explorers were very brave not knowing when they set out if they would ever reach their goal:)

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