Jacques Cartier, the French explorer who found glittering stones in the high cliff, thought the stones contained diamonds. After he brought samples of these stones to France in 1542, experts concluded that these "diamonds" were actually quartz, hence the proverb "Faux comme un diamant du Canada" ("as fake (or as false) as a Canadian diamond").[1]
Panorama of Cap Diamant from across the St. Lawrence River
Popular culture
A song entitled "Cap Diamant" was on Canadian singer-songwriter Coeur de Pirate's second CD, Blonde.
Cap-aux-Diamants lends its name to a cultural history journal, published in Quebec since 1985.[2]
References
^Cruxton, Walker, J. Bradley, Robert J. (1991). Les premières communautés canadiennes. Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 176. ISBN0-19-540835-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)