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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus sails to America
Columbus sails from europe and lands in America. ''Discovering'' new land or what he calls India. -
Period: Jun 24, 1497 to Jan 7, 1498
John Cabot
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.
1498: John Cabot makes another voyage across the Atlantic to the Maritimes but gets lost at sea. -
Jul 24, 1534
Jacques Cartier discovers land for France
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. -
Nov 14, 1535
Jaques Cartier gives Canada her name
Jacques Cartier journeys up the St. Lawrence to the native settlements. Gives Canada her name. -
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson esplores the Bay of Hudson but is set a drift in the sea by his crew members. -
Thomas James sails into Hudson Bay.
And he dicovers James bay which he then named after himself. -
Foxe
Foxe explores the Artic looking for the North West passage. -
Francois de Laval
Francois de Laval arrives at Quebec as de facto bishop of New France -
Discovery of the Rocky Mountains
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Louis-Joseph
Explores westward in search of the "Western Sea", crossing the plains almost to Rocky Mountains. -
German immigrants
German immigrants begin to arrive in numbers at Halifax. -
Samuel Hearne
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. -
James Cook
Captain James Cook explores the Pacific Coast from Nootka, Vancouver Island, to the Bering Strait. -
Alexander Mackenzie
By canoe and on foot, Alexander Mackenzie crosses the Rocky Mountains and the Coast Range, reaching the Pacific Ocean -
Sir John Franklin
Sir John Franklin and his crew disappear in the Arctic while searching the Northwest Passage.
