It has taken Jacques Cartier, under a…

It has taken Jacques Cartier, under a mandate from Francis I to find a waterway to Cathay (China) and to Cypango (Japan), twenty days to sail across the ocean from St. Malo.

Starting on May 10 of 1534, he explores parts of Newfoundland, areas that now comprise the Canadian Atlantic provinces, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Searching for the Northwest Passage on the other side of Newfoundland, Cartier thoroughly explores and maps the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, where he finds a French ship lost on earlier, evidently unrecorded expedition.