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Exploration 1497 to 1650
This series of maps depicts the extent of exploration that took place in Canada during the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries. There is little doubt that almost every recorded voyage of discovery proceeded from the accumulated knowledge of a host of anonymous Portuguese, Basque, French, Spanish and English fishermen who had proceeded those who finally left a record of what they found. By the end of the sixteenth century the coast of eastern Canada from the Arctic Circle to Nova Scotia, with the exception of Hudson Bay were essentially known to Europeans.
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Exploration 1497 to 1650 Map(s)
- Initial Probes 1497 to 1501 Map | Read about this map
- The Search for a Western Passage c1519 to 1527 Map | Read about this map
- Initial Penetration of the St. Lawrence Valley 1534 to 1583 Map | Read about this map
- The Search for a Northwest Passage 1576 to 1587 Map | Read about this map
- The Arctic Coast 1602 to 1606 Map | Read about this map
- The Atlantic Coast and Saint Lawrence River 1603 to 1607 Map | Read about this map
- The Atlantic Coast, Saint Lawrence River and Eastern Great Lakes 1609 to 1628 Map | Read about this map
- The Arctic Coast and Hudson Bay 1610 to 1632 Map | Read about this map
- Consolidation of Knowledge in the Eastern Great Lakes 1634 to 1647 Map | Read about this map
