Stadacona

Stadacona was a 16th-century St. Lawrence Iroquoian village near present-day Quebec City.

French explorer and navigator Jacques Cartier, travelling and charting the Saint Lawrence River, reached it during July 1534. At the time, the chief of the village was Donnacona. Despite efforts by the people of the village, Cartier seized some inhabitants and their chief but later released Donnacona and he agreed for his two sons, Taignoagny and Domagaya, to return with Cartier to France for a year.