Cartier’s pinnace can proceed no further, as…

Cartier’s pinnace can proceed no further, as the river is blocked by rapids.

So certain is Cartier that the river is the Northwest Passage and that the rapids are all that is preventing him from sailing to China, that the rapids and the town that eventually grow up near them come to be named after the French word for China, La Chine: the Lachine Rapids and the town of Lachine, Quebec.