Obviously I mean "discovered" because you can't discover an occupied country but I was right at the tweet limit. Jacques Cartier who gets credited for all sorts of "discoveries" "found" Basque fishermen and whalers on his first visit to North America.
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I am not sure if this is my most random fact, but it is definitely the fact that I am the saltiest about
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and by country I mean land etc etc I'm tired forgive me.
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I had heard this almost 25 years ago from a prof, this is the first time I have seen the specifics (or it mentioned again for that matter). I often wondered about it because I’ve never seen it mentioned anywhere else.
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The Canadian Museum of History makes references to this relative to Jacques Cartier, but I learned it from Cod by Mark Kurlansky https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/economic-activities/basque-whalers/ …
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I learned the Basque half of that neat random fact in Tadoussac, Quebec, in 2004, thanks to being a reporter for the Gray Lady. They were also there whaling (Gulf of St. Lawrence). https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/science/save-the-whales-then-what.html …pic.twitter.com/mQkAIDdf9f
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There were Irish settlers here before Columbus too.
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My understanding is that those are theories that haven't been settled. What's wild about the Basque thing is that *contemporaneous* records were like they were here, but yet, somehow they didn't make it way into the way history is taught in this country.
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I've gone down a rabbit hole with this thread
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It's a really good thread.
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