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The vikings travel from Greenland and Iceland and land in area that they called Vinland(Maine, Massachusetts) where they establish a settlement but only for a short time
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Columbus sails from Spain across the Atlantic in search of a shorter route to the indes but instead lands in America
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Cabot an Italian navigator is hired to find a shorter route to the indes the Columbus and ends up landing in Canada where instead of jewels and spices he finds an enourmous supply of Cod
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Cartier is sent by King Francis I of France to look for gold and other valuable metals.
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On his second trip Cartier sails in to the Gulf of St.Lawrence and becomes the first explorer to reach the interior of Canada.
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Cartier joins a french expedition in hope of establishing a permanent settlement but the colony only lasts until 1543
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Travels in along St.Lawrence river and forms a settlement that later becomes Quebec City
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French population grows rapidly after introduction
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Hudson's bay is an English Fur trading Company
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Louis Jolliet and Jaques Marquette sail down Mississippi to it's junction with the Arkansas River where they build Forts
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