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Martin Frobisher makes first of three attempts to find a Northwest Passage |
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Hudson's Bay Company is formed and granted trade rights over all territory draining into Hudson Bay |
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Alexander Mackenzie journeys to the Beaufort Sea following what would become the Mackenzie River |
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North-West Mounted Police are created |
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Gold Rush begins in the Klondike |
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Northwest Passage completed by Roald Amundsen |
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Admiral Robert Peary reaches the North Pole or did he? |
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RCMP schooner St. Roch is first vessel to complete the Northwest Passage from west to east |
