Explorers Who Came To Canada
By : Ben Thornton
About Explorers
Henry Hudson
Hudson Bay was named after an explorer named Henry Hudson. He sailed there in 1610 to look for the Northwest passage. He sailed his ship the Discovery into the bay until November when a bay froze over his ship then ice got stuck on his ship. He starved and they became ill with scurvy.
Thirteen sailors took over the ship and put Henry Hudson, his son, and seven sick crew members in a small, open boat. They were never seen again. Henry Hudson’s ship the Discovery was the first ship to sail to Hudson Bay. He was born in the United Kingdom in 1565. He came to Canada in a boat. He did in 1611 in Hudson Bay.
The Muscovy company sent Henry Hudson to explore.
He was born somewhere around London. He married a girl named
Katherene they had three children. He was looking for a passage to India. His first expedition was in May in 1607.
Jacques Cartier
In April 1534, Jacques sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from France to Newfoundland. He was born in Saint-Malo France in December in 1491. He died in September 1 1557 in Saint-Malo France. His first voyage was in April 20 1534. The king of France sent him. His name is Francis. The king sent him because he was hoping he could find the western passage to the wealthy markets of Asia.
John Cabot
Explorers
Samuel de Champlain
Sir John Franklin
First Nation
The Huron and Iroquois were at war before Champlain arrived in North America. Huron is a French name for the Wendat, a group of four or six nations, or tribes who lived in year round permanent villages mostly in what is today southern Ontario. On this voyage , Frobisher kidnapped an Inuit man and brought him back to England to show to the public. The man was ill than he died. Franklin met some Inuit people during his first expedition to the Arctic. He offered Inuit gifts, including metal tools, to show he was friendly. Champlain dreamed that the furs and farmland of New France would one day make it strong. The Iroquois was a group of five different nations. France's Louis XIV shipped more settlers to New France to increase the population of the settlements in the present day Quebec City, as well as Montreal and Trois Riverieres
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