St Lawrence River
Rises at the source of the St. Louis River, west
end of Lake Superior, and falls into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. West of
Lake Ontario the river is known by different names, and the St. Lawrence
proper issues from that lake. The name was originally given by Jacques
Cartier to a bay on the Labrador coast of the gulf. Cartier explored the
river in 1535, as far as the island of Montreal. =Index=: (Samuel de Champlain era) Early
visits of fishing vessels to, 59. =Bib.=: Dawson, The St. Lawrence
Basin; Johnson, Picturesque St. Lawrence.