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Columbus sails from europe and lands in America. ''Discovering'' new land or what he calls India.
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John Cabot claims new world territory. Either Newfoundland or Cape Breton Island.
John Cabot makes two voyages to the fishing grounds of Newfoundland and England.
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Jacques Cartier explores the coast of Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick. He lands on the Gaspe Peninsula and claims the land for France.
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Jacques Cartier journeys up the St. Lawrence to the native settlements. Gives Canada her name.
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Henry Hudson esplores the Bay of Hudson but is set a drift in the sea by his crew members.
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And he dicovers James bay which he then named after himself.
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Foxe explores the Artic looking for the North West passage.
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Francois de Laval arrives at Quebec as de facto bishop of New France
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Explores westward in search of the "Western Sea", crossing the plains almost to Rocky Mountains.
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German immigrants begin to arrive in numbers at Halifax.
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Samuel Hearne, guided by Chipewyan leader Matonabbee, explores in a two-years voyage the Coppermine and Slave rivers and Great Slave Lake. He is the first white man to reach the Artic Ocean overland.
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Captain James Cook explores the Pacific Coast from Nootka, Vancouver Island, to the Bering Strait.
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By canoe and on foot, Alexander Mackenzie crosses the Rocky Mountains and the Coast Range, reaching the Pacific Ocean
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Sir John Franklin and his crew disappear in the Arctic while searching the Northwest Passage.
