Henry Youle Hind In the middle of the nineteenth century, the vast British territories west of the Great Lakes were under the control of the Hudson's Bay Company... http: //epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passa...
Luke Foxe and Thomas James Leading rival merchants in London both sent out expeditions to the Hudson Bay area in 1631 to search for the Northwest Passage... http: //win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/foxejames....
Vitus Bering Vitus Bering was one of the world's famous explorers. In 1728, Bering discovered that Asia and America are two separate continents, and in 1741 he was the first one to map the west coast of Alaska. As Columbus tied together the world to the west, Bering tied it together to the east. http: //nndb.com/people/082/000094797/
Jacques Cartier Jacques Cartier was born in the seaport of Saint Malo, France... http: //library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/jacques_car...
Joseph François Lafitau 1724 Joseph-François Lafitau, a Jesuit missionary and the discoverer of ginseng in North America... http: //epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passa...
Father Marquette Jacques Marquette was born on June 10, 1673. He went to a school run by Jesuit priests. He joined the Jesuit order in 1656 and spent the next 10 years studying and teaching in France. In 1666 Marquette was sent as a missionary to New France http: //library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/father_marq...
Alcala-Galiano 1792 Born in 1762 in Cabra, Spain, Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano enrolled in the naval school in 1775... http: //cmhg.gc.ca/cmh/en/image_283.asp
La Salle and Tonty 1678-1688 In 1680, after the failure of his first attempt, La Salle retraced his steps and made preparations for a second expedition http: //epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passa...
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