Editing Jacques Cartier (section)

==Rediscovery of Cartier's first colony==
[[File:Québec, Jacques Cartier4.jpg|thumb|Plaque on the statue of Jacques Cartier in front of the Gabrielle-Roy public library, in the Saint-Roch neighbourhood of Quebec City.]]
On August 18, 2006, Quebec Premier [[Jean Charest]] announced that Canadian archaeologists had discovered the precise location of Cartier's lost first colony of [[Charlesbourg-Royal]].<ref name=rediscovery>{{cite web|url=http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=edd7eac6-f566-4011-87d7-82becfc883a2&k=48975 |title=Pottery shard unearths North America's first French settlement |publisher=canada.com |date=August 22, 2006 |access-date=March 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090130061926/http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=edd7eac6-f566-4011-87d7-82becfc883a2&k=48975 |archive-date=January 30, 2009 }}</ref> The colony was built at the confluence of the [[Rivière du Cap Rouge]] with the St. Lawrence River and is based on the discovery of burnt wooden timber remains that have been dated to the mid-16th century, and a [[:fr:Site archéologique Cartier-Roberval|fragment of a decorative Istoriato plate]] manufactured in [[Faenza]], Italy, between 1540 and 1550, that could only have belonged to a member of the French aristocracy in the colony. Most probably this was the [[Jean-François de la Roque de Roberval|Sieur de Roberval]], who replaced Cartier as the leader of the settlement.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=4978e603-f67e-4784-807d-7f3911c60829&k=27303 |title=Long-lost Jacques Cartier settlement rediscovered at Quebec City |publisher=canada.com |date=August 19, 2006 |access-date=March 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825043455/http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=4978e603-f67e-4784-807d-7f3911c60829&k=27303 |archive-date=August 25, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> This colony was the first known European settlement in modern-day Canada since the c. 1000 [[L'Anse aux Meadows]] Viking village in northern [[Newfoundland]]. Its rediscovery has been hailed by archaeologists as the most important find in Canada since the L'Anse aux Meadows rediscovery.<ref name=rediscovery/>