And it would take another 60 years or so before 17th-century cartographers - including mapmaker Samuel de Champlain, the founder of New France - began to more accurately approximate the shape of the continent. In European minds at the time, North America still lacked clear geographical definition. Lawrence River to present-day Quebec City and Montreal.Īfter Italian mapmakers used the term for their creations in the 1560s, Cartaro’s 1577 globe shows he placed the six-letter word amid mountains and two unidentified rivers on a vaguely recognizable continent far to the west of Europe, across the Atlantic Ocean. The new, cheaper globes made by geographers such as Cartaro eclipsed the era when hand-drawn representations of the Earth, sometimes inscribed directly on metal spheres, allowed only negligible distribution.įrench explorer Jacques Cartier’s first used the term “Canada” - generally thought to be derived from an Iroquois term for “village” - following his 1535 voyage up the St. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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