The Saint Lawrence Basin And Its Border Lands Being the Story of Their Discover
The Saint Lawrence Basin And Its Border Lands Being the Story of Their Discover
Dawson, Samuel Edward, 1833-1916
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Charlevoix has varied the error by confusing the Ste. Croix and Jacques Cartier; the Ste. Croix opposite the Jacques Cartier was not a river, but a point of land. The question should be set at rest by the testimony of Champlain and his conclusive reasoning. He says of the St. Charles : " I am of the opinion that this river, which is north- north-west from our settlement, is the place where Jacques Cartier wintered, since there are still, a league up the river, remains of what seems to have been... a chim- ney, the foundation of which has been found, and indi- cations of there having been ditches surrounding their dwellings, which were small. We found also large pieces of hewn worm-eaten timber, and some three or four cannon balls. All these things show clearly that there was a settlement there, founded by Christians ; and what leads me to say and believe that it was that of Jacques Cartier is the fact that there is no evidence whatever that anyone wintered and built a house in these places except Jacques Cartier, at the time of his discoveries This place, as I think, must have been called Ste.
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