Cartier’s crew, during one stop at the…

June 1534 CE

Cartier’s crew, during one stop at the tiny Îles aux Oiseaux (Islands of the Birds, now the Rochers-aux-Oiseaux federal bird sanctuary, twenty kilometers northeast of Brion Island in the Magdalen Islands), slaughters around a thousand birds, most of them great auks (now extinct).

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