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Simon Fraser (1776-1862)

  • Crossed the Rocky Mountains and traveled most of the way down the river that bears his name (1805-1807)
Henry Yule Hind (1823-1908)

  • Explored the Assiniboine, Qu’Appelle, South and North Saskatchewan, and Souris Rivers and Lakes Winnipeg and Winnipegosis (1858)
Louis Joliet (1645-1700)

  • With Jacques Marquette, explored the Great Lakes and first to chart the Mississippi River successfully as far south as the junction of the Arkansas River (1669)
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes La Vérendrye (1685-1749)

  • Explored Western Canada
  • Made a trip on foot and on horseback to the area of the Black Hills in South Dakota (1742-1743)
Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962)

  • Part of an expedition to the Mackenzie River Delta (1906-1907)
  • Conducted an ethnological survey of the central Arctic coast (1908-1912)
  • Found land north of Prince Patrick Island and Axel Heiberg Island, and mapped large regions of the Arctic coastline (1913-1918)
David Thompson (1770-1857)

  • Mapped extensive areas of Western Canada, including the Columbia River (1789-1811)




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