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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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