Stadacona
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Stadacona was a 16th-century St. Lawrence Iroquoian village not far from where Quebec City was founded in 1608. It was the site of the first attempted permanent settlement by French colonists in New F
Jacques Cartier meeting the Indians at Stadacona in 1535, by Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté (1907)
Canada
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Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the second-largest coun
Stadacona
…with Donnacona's sons on his next voyage in 1535–1536, where he recorded a word they had used to refer to their home: "They call a town, Kanata" (Canada). Cartier continued up the Saint Lawrence River to Hochelaga despite resistance from Stadaconans who would have preferred to retain a trading monopoly…
Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe (1771) dramatizes James Wolfe's death during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec City.
War of 1812 heroine Laura Secord warning British commander James FitzGibbon of an impending American attack at Beaver Dams
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