Hoping Against Hope?
The Struggle Against Colonialism in Canada
by Kim Petersen
March 5, 2007

On 24 July 1534, the French explorer Jacques Cartier landed at Baie de Gaspé on territory inhabited by the Haudenosaunee. The French erected a large cross there and Cartier claimed possession of the land in the name of the French king François I. When ...   more »