Section of Gerolamo da Verrazzano's map of the world, 1529.
This 16th-century map was produced by the brother of the Florentine explorer, Giovanni da Verrazzano. In 1524, Verrazzano sailed along the North American east coast – as far north as Newfoundland – while searching for a Western route to Asia.

Courtesy of the Vatican Photo Library (Foto Biblioteca Vaticana), Vatican City. From André Vachon, in collaboration with Victorin Chabot and André Desrosiers, Dreams of Empire: Canada before 1700, Records of Our History series, English transl. by John F. Flinn (Ottawa, Ontario: Public Archives of Canada, ©1982) 30. Plate 13.