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History

History - Canada (page 4)

page 1:	General history |  Chronology |  Historical geography
page 2:	Biography, demography and genealogy
page 3:	Emblems, symbols and flags |  Constitutional history |  Politics and government
page 4:	Discovery and exploration
page 5:	Migration and settlement
page 6:	The French régime |  The British colonial period |  Canada, the nation
page 7:	Economic history (Exploitation of natural resources, Industries and trades, Labor, Commerce, Finance)
page 8:	Transportation history (Water transportation, Railways, Air transportation, Space flight) |  Communications history
page 9:	Religious history |  Social history |  Women's history

Discovery and exploration

Pathfinders and Passageways: The Exploration of Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/24/index-e.html

The Champlain Society Digital Collection
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/champlain/search.cfm

The Viking Discovery of America
http://www.norway.org/vikingdi.htm

Norse Expansion into North America
http://www.heureka.fi/heureka/en/x/nxwallace.html

Canada Hall: The Norse
http://www.civilization.ca/hist/canp1/ca01eng.html

Vikings in America
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/vinland.html

Land of Wine and Forests: The Norse in North America
http://www.mercatormag.com/501norse.html

Vinland
http://www.civilization.ca/educat/oracle/modules/rmcghee/page01_e.html

The Hauksbók Version of Thorfinn Karlsefni's Expedition to Vinland
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/north/nor-i/thule/017-7e.htm

The Vikings: They Got Here First, But Why Didn't They Stay?
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/16/h16-4223-e.html

The Search for Vinland: On the Trail of the Vikings
http://marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/data/art/JUNGER01.ART

Renewing the Quest for Vinland: The Stefánsson, Resen, and Thorláksson Maps
http://www.mercatormag.com/505quest.html

New World Explorers, part 1: The Vikings in Vinland: L'Anse aux Meadows
http://www.athenapub.com/vinland1.htm

The First European Colony in America
http://marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/papers/buettner-1.html

L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/nl/meadows/natcul/hist_e.asp

Vikings Discovery and Landing at L'Anse aux Meadows
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/vikings/

In the Footsteps of the Norse
http://marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/data/art/FAGAN-03.ART

The Vikings and the Eskimos
http://marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/data/art/WILSON06.ART

Canada Hall: North Atlantic Crossings
http://www.civilization.ca/hist/canp1/ca02eng.html

Passages: A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/passages/

Great Canadian Explorers
http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/multimedia/explorers/index.html

Northern Approaches
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/16/h16-4222-e.html

The Exploration of the Americas (a book by Dr. Prudhomme's fifth grade class): Northeastern North America
http://pen1.pen.k12.va.us/Anthology/Div/Albemarle/Schools/MurrayElem/ClassPages/Prudhomme/Explorers/northeast.html

Exploration: Maritime 1497-1599
http://nais.ccm.emr.ca/~medaglia/exploration/explore.html

Novus Orbis: Images of the New World, 1507-1669
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/ch1.html

Empire of the Bay
http://www.pbs.org/empireofthebay/

The Explorers of New France
http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/Explor/explcd_e.htm

La Nouvelle-France sur la route des explorateurs
http://www.explore-nf.com

Exploration and Settlement: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/default.html

A Discourse and Discovery of Newfoundland
http://www.mun.ca/rels/hrollmann/relsoc/texts/whitbourne/whit.html

A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador: An Account of the Exploration of the Nascaupee and George Rivers
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4266

The Lure of the Labrador Wild: The Story of the Exploring Expedition Conducted by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4019

Who Was John Cabot? A Short History of John Cabot, the Adventurer
http://www.cabot.ac.uk/information/cabot.html

John & Sebastian Cabot
http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/03126d.htm

John and Sebastian Cabot
http://www.mariner.org/age/cabot.html

Giovanni Caboto
http://205.250.151.22/encyspmweb/cabot/

John Cabot 500th Anniversary Celebrations (1497 - 1997)
http://enterprise.newcomm.net/CABOT500/

John Cabot's Voyage and his ship "The Matthew"
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/cabot.txt

The Cabot Dilemma: John Cabot's 1497 Voyage and the Limits of Historiography
http://etext.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH33/croxto33.html

John Cabot and the John Day Letter
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/heritage/handbook/hist1.htm

Cabot fever
http://www.cangeo.ca/JA97/JA97Tongue.htm

Jacques Cartier
http://www.io.org/~socrates/Cartier.html

Jacques Cartier
http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/reper/glossair/r-ge-03.htm

The Voyages of Jacques Cartier
http://www.mariner.org/age/cartier.html

Jacques Cartier au Mont royal
http://colba.net/~larouche/jacquescartier/index.html

Mercator's Secret: A famous sixteenth-century world map suggests that a part of North America may have been carefully explored before it was "discovered"
http://www.mercatormag.com/502secret.html

Inuit and Englishmen: The Nunavut Voyages of Martin Frobisher
http://www.civilization.ca/hist/frobisher/frint01e.html

The First North American Gold Rush
http://www.idon.com/sample19.html
(The Frobisher expeditions, 1576-1578)

Living in Canada in the Time of Champlain
http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/expos/champlain/indexeng.html

Champlain in Acadia
http://www.histori.ca/champlain/index.do

Champlain: Travels in the Canadian Francophonie
http://champlain.expomediatour.ca/

Samuel de Champlain
http://engc.bu.edu/~dcm/pr_history/na_amer/champlai.htm
Extracts adapted from The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain (pub. 1613), translated from the French

Samuel de Champlain 1567-1635
http://www.samueldechamplain.com/

Samuel de Champlain, Voyages, 1604
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1601-1650/champlain/voyag.htm

The life and times of Henry Hudson, explorer and adventurer
http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/

Into the Great Bay: Henry Hudson's Mysterious Voyage
http://www.historysociety.ca/english/thebeaver/features/aug99/hudson_1.html

The Ghost of Henry Hudson
http://www.mercatormag.com/403_hudson.html

Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson, Being an Account of His Travels and Experiences Among the North American Indians, from 1652 to 1684
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6913

Le voyage de Radisson et Des Groseilliers au lac Supérieur, 1659-1660 : un événement marquant dans la consolidation des relations franco-amérindiennes
http://www.erudit.org/erudit/haf/v52n02/fournier/fournier.htm

Jacques Marquette
http://www.mlink.net/~lfournie/marquett.html

Short biography of Louis Jolliet
http://www.navreshq.queb.dnd.ca/units/jolliet/story.htm

La Vérendrye
http://www.dlcwest.com/~acfc/Historique/Hommesmetis/verand/ptitre.htm

Du Témiscaminque à la baie d'Hudson en 1884
http://www.anq.gouv.qc.ca/Temiscamingue/Introduction.html

The History of Nunavut
http://www.arctic-travel.com/chapters/historypage.html

Northwest Passage: The Quest for an Arctic Route to the East
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/16/h16-5101-e.html

The search for a Northwest Passage
http://www.bl.uk/collections/americas/nwpassage/intro.html

Polar Exploration: North-West Passage
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/searchbin/searchs.pl?exhibit=browse&axis;=ic0021f&flash;=true

Frozen Ocean - Search for the North-West Passage
http://ve.tpl.toronto.on.ca/frozen_ocean/index.htm

Arctic Blue Books Online
http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/arcticbb/index.shtml

You Will Readily Conjecture: The explorations and maps of Peter Pond
http://www.mercatormag.com/article.php3?i=115

Overland to the Sea: Samuel Hearne's Search for the Coppermine River
http://www.mercatormag.com/501hearne.html

The Barren Lands: J.B. Tyrrell's Expeditions for the Geological Survey of Canada, 1892-1894
http://digital.library.utoronto.ca/Tyrrell/

European Exploration on the Northwest Coast
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/maritime_museum/exploration/ee_nwc.html
also at: http://mmbc.bc.ca/source/schoolnet/exploration/ee_nwc.html

Fragmentary evidence of Spanish 'invasion' (in the Okanagan Valley)
http://ogopogo.com/okanagan/spanish/index.html

Captain Alejandro Malaspina
http://www.mala.bc.ca/www/discover/capt/capt.htm

Simon Fraser, the Explorer
http://www.sfu.ca/archives/sf-explorer.html

In the Most Faithful Manner: George Vancouver's Great Voyage
http://www.mercatormag.com/406vancouver.html

George Vancouver: "A Chart Shewing Part of the Coast of N.W. America."
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/ch4-26.html

Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6596

Alexander Mackenzie: "A Map of America between Latitudes 40 and 70 North, and Longitudes 45 and 180 West, Exhibiting Mackenzie's Track."
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/ch4-27.html

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur (Lord) de La Salle
http://www.thc.state.tx.us/belle/lasalle2.htm

Billing's Expedition Preserved: The Conservation of an Arctic Portfolio
gopher://acs6.acs.ucalgary.ca:70/00/library/polar/newsletters/infonorth/vol21no1

Sir John Franklin: His Life and Afterlife
http://home.navisoft.com/ekkhs/frank1.htm

Franklin's Naval Career
http://boulder.earthnet.net/~ambranch/hist01.html

Franklin's Second Overland Expedition (1825-1827)
http://boulder.earthnet.net/~ambranch/hist02.html

Franklin's Last Expedition (1845-1847)
http://boulder.earthnet.net/~ambranch/hist03.html

The Search for Franklin and Franklin Relics 1847-1880: A guide to primary sources held at the National Library of Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/services/efrankln.htm

The Franklin Trail
http://www.franklintrail.com/

John Ross Explores the Arctic
http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cseh-twih/archives2_E.asp?id=234

The great search continues: An expedition for Franklin's ships produces new clues
http://albertareport.com/24arcopy/24a44cpy/2444ar04.htm

Fort Hope
http://www.pwnhc.ca/exhibits/nv/fthope.htm

Deline (Fort Franklin)
http://www.pwnhc.ca/exhibits/nv/deline.htm

Beechey Island
http://www.pwnhc.ca/exhibits/nv/beechey.htm

The George Back Collection from the National Archives of Canada
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/back/
George Back created a remarkable record of his expeditions to the Arctic region from 1818 until 1837.

Northern People, Northern Knowledge: The Story of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1918
http://www.civilization.ca/hist/cae/splashe.html

Adventure and Illustration in North America and the Caribbean 1760-1895
http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/illus.htm

Explorers of the West
http://www.ourheritage.net/

The Well-Dressed Explorer
http://www.agt.net/public/gottfred/sample.html

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