Fraser 1808 Simon Fraser, an explorer and fur trader, was born in 1776 in Mapletown, Vermont... http: //epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passa...
Martin Frobisher On his first voyage in search of the Northwest Passage Frobisher landed near Resolution Island... http: //epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passa...
Vespucci In 1499 sailed from Spain with 4 ships commanded by Alonso de Ojeda who had sailed with Columbus on his second voyage... http: //library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/vespucci.ht...
Francisco Pizarro http: //library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/pizarro.htm...
La Vérendrye and Sons 1727-1743 In the early 1720s French explorers still knew relatively little about the interior of the North American continent... http: //epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passa...
Franklin 1819-1822 After George Vancouver, the explorer who did the most to advance knowledge of the Canadian coast was unquestionably John Franklin... http: //epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passa...
John Davis Davis sighted land somewhere along the east Gronland coast on his first voyage http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davis_(English_e...
Viscount Milton 1862-1863 Written by a young Englishmen with an adventurous spirit, The North-West Passage by Land played an indirect part in the creation of present-day Canada... http: //epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passa...
Lahontan Lahontan embarked for Canada in 1683 with a contingent of navy troops.... http: //epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passa...
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