![1577 1577](/web/20071116122405im_/http://polar.nrcan.gc.ca/arctic/images/pi_1577.gif) |
Martin Frobisher makes first of three attempts to find a Northwest Passage |
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![1670 1670](/web/20071116122405im_/http://polar.nrcan.gc.ca/arctic/images/pi_1670.gif) |
Hudson's Bay Company is formed and granted trade rights over all territory draining into Hudson Bay |
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![1789 1789](/web/20071116122405im_/http://polar.nrcan.gc.ca/arctic/images/pi_1789.gif) |
Alexander Mackenzie journeys to the Beaufort Sea following what would become the Mackenzie River |
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![1873 1873](/web/20071116122405im_/http://polar.nrcan.gc.ca/arctic/images/pi_1873.gif) |
North-West Mounted Police are created |
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![1897 1897](/web/20071116122405im_/http://polar.nrcan.gc.ca/arctic/images/pi_1897.gif) |
Gold Rush begins in the Klondike |
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![1903-1906 1903-1906](/web/20071116122405im_/http://polar.nrcan.gc.ca/arctic/images/pi_1903.gif) |
Northwest Passage completed by Roald Amundsen |
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![1909 1909](/web/20071116122405im_/http://polar.nrcan.gc.ca/arctic/images/pi_1909.gif) |
Admiral Robert Peary reaches the North Pole or did he? |
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![1940-1942 1940-1942](/web/20071116122405im_/http://polar.nrcan.gc.ca/arctic/images/pi_1940.gif) |
RCMP schooner St. Roch is first vessel to complete the Northwest Passage from west to east |