Jacques Cartier Bridge (Montreal, Que.)
Jacques Cartier mapped much of what would become New France, but his navigation relied an awful lot on kidnaping Indigenous people to be his guides. In one particularly egregious episode, he took a party of 10 Iroquois back to France, where they soon died. When Cartier returned to the St. Lawrence River without the Iroquois, he lied and told the locals they were all “living as great lords; they had married and had no desire to return to their country.”
The Jacques-Cartier bridge seen in 2013. POS1305241304420938
