Early Life of Jacques Cartier. 1  Cartier was born in 1491 in Saint-Malo. During his early childhood he would hear stories of the great Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and the exploits of the Spanish Conquistadors. 2  His homeland France was relatively inactive in the exploits of the New World.
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SOS is a Morse procedural signalâ or prosign.. As the SOS signal is a âprosignâ, its respective letters have no inherent meaning per se. In the simplest terms, SOS is a âSIGNALâ indicating distress and the need for help, and not an acronym or abbreviation.