Canadian Explorers!

Timeline created by Monica Sweetz in History

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
06/24/1499	John Cabot	John Cabot was an Italian-born English explorer. His purpose was to find a Northwest passage but instead landed in Northeastern Asia.
11/14/1611	Henry Hudson	Henry Hudson was an English explorer. He went looking for a Northwest passage from North America to Asia but instead found a river called the Hudson river. The hudson bay and the Hudson Strait are also named after him.
11/14/1635	Samuel De Champlain	Samuel De Champlain was a geographer and mapped out most of North America and later discovered later the lake named after him.
11/14/1720	David Thompson	David Thompson was an amazing land geographer. He mapped out amazing places. He was the first European to explore the Coloumbia river.
10/27/1779	James Cook	James Cook was a British explorerwho went on many expeditions to the Pacific Ocean, the Anartic, the Artic and all over the world.
06/22/1795	Leif Erickson	Leif Erickson lived in Greenland. He travelled to Helluland then to Markland finally he settled in Vinland The Good. Which he thought was NewFoundLand. Picture found on Google Images.
11/14/1820	Alexander Mackenzie	Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish explorer who sailed to Canada through the Pacific Ocean. On his way travelling to lake Athabasca he discovered the Mackenzie river.
11/14/1862	Simon Fraiser	Simon Fraiser was a fur trader and explorer. He started to look for a place to start his trades but instead he disovered a river which is now known as the Fraiser river.
11/14/2011	Jaques Cartier	Jaques Cartier was a French explorer who led three expeditions to Canada. He was looking for a route to the Pacific for a Northwest but he failed. He settled in what he called "Canada".