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When did Jacques Cartier visit the site of present-day Quebec city?
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The French explorer Jacques Cartier first visited the site of present-day Quebec City—then the Huron-Iroquois village of Stadacona—during his second voyage to North America in 1535. He later returned to the area in 1541 to establish a French colony.123