Stadacona
Sign in to saveStadacona was a 16th-century St. Lawrence Iroquoian village not far from where Quebec City was founded in 1608. It was the site of the first attempted permanent settlement by French colonists in New France and played an important role in the early exploration of Quebec.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Stadacona
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Jacques Cartier Meeting the Indians at Stadacona, 1535.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Jacques Cartier meeting the Indians at Stadacona in 1535, by Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté (1907)
- Settlement.coordinates
- , present-day Québec City
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Quebec
- Image
- Cartier-Brébeuf site.jpg
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Stadacona was a 16th-century St. Lawrence Iroquoian village not far from where Quebec City was founded in 1608. It was the site of the first attempted permanent settlement by French colonists in New France and played an important role in the early exploration of Quebec.
The name Canada, borrowed by Jacques Cartier to designate the country around Stadaconé and the similar village of Hochelaga as well as the Saint Lawrence River (), comes from the Iroquoian language, in which the word meant "town". No archaeological trace of Stadacona has been found, so its precise location remains unknown to this day. It is assumed that it was located near the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and the Saint-Charles River in what is now the Vieux-Limoilou district of Quebec City.