Jacques Cartier was the first person to discover canada? Or was that John Cabot?

I am so confused, please help, thanks|||Technically not the first person. The first person would have been the ancestors of the people who were already there, i.e. the aboriginals.





But the first modern day European to discover Canada was John Cabot in 1497. He came he saw, he claimed Newfoundland and he left.





Cartier didn't come to the new world until 1534. Which was well after Cartier, and he wasn't even the first explorer working for France to come. Verrazano had already mapped out and claimed a portion of the northern seaboard for France.





Of course Lief Erikson also discovered the area years earlier. There is also some evidence that Bristol fishermen had been coming to Newfoundland for years before Cabot knew anything about it. And there have been lots of reports of others knowing about it, some less believable than others (my favourite are the monks who claimed to have also found an island where the birds sang in latin), so you have to use the word discover in this case carefully. But generally John Cabot is considered to have discovered Canada.|||Actually native peoples have been in Canada for over 10,000 years.|||Leif Erikson landed in Newfoundland in about 1100.|||I think you will find that there were some indigenous people who discovered it long before they did