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To: BluH2o
Interesting. I googled this:

In the year ensuing, 19 May, 1535, he began his second voyage with three small vessels, and, steering westward along the coast of Labrador, entered a small bay opposite the island of Anticosti, which he called the bay of St. Lawrence. Ile proceeded cautiously up the river, past the Saguenay and Cape Tour-mente, and anchored off a wooded and vine-clad island ; he called it, on account of the rich clusters of grapes

11 posted on 08/31/2006 5:35:47 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

I think grapes also grew in England years ago.


14 posted on 08/31/2006 5:38:36 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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To: Izzy Dunne
He proceeded cautiously up the river, past the Saguenay and Cape Tour-mente, and anchored off a wooded and vine-clad island ; he called it, on account of the rich clusters of grapes ...

Jacques Cartier also landed and planted a cross at present day Gaspe ... at the eastern tip of the Gaspe Peninsula. He called the waters in the immediate area Le Bai de Chaleur ... translated, the Bay of Warmth, or warm waters.

15 posted on 08/31/2006 5:48:36 PM PDT by BluH2o
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