A Collection of Documents relating to Jacques Cartier and The Sieur De Roberval. This item is unavailable.A Collection of Documents relating to Jacques Cartier and The Sieur De Roberval

24.5cm, xxxvii,577p. stiff printed wraps, text in french and english, T.P.L. 10. O'Dea 1959. Two hundred ninety three documents of the 16th Century, printed here mainlyfor the first time, relating to Newfoundland and New France. A continuation of Biggar's earlier compilation,The Precursors of Jacques Cartier. Cartier was commissioned in 1534 to make a voyage of exploration to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Hepassed through the Strait of Belle Isle, crossed to the coast of Gaspé, where he first came into contact with the indigenous people and penetrated the Gulf of St. Lawrence as fas as Anticosti. In the spring of 1535 he made a second voyage and ascended as far as the Island of Montreal. He wintered in the neighbourhood of the present city of Quebec, and in 1536 returned to France. His third voyage did not take place until 1541; and on this occasion he was subordinate to the Sieur de Roberval. To whom the King of France had issued a commission as Lieutenant-general. Cartier re-visited the island of Montreal, and again spent a winter in Canada, waiting for Roberval; but in the spring of 1542 he returned to France, passing Roberval at St. John's Newfoundland. It is probable that the voyage of 1541-42 was his last visit to the St. Lawrence valley, of which he had been the discover. He died at St. Maol on Sept 1, 1557. (Wallace).…