Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain

male, deceased (1635)
Samuel de Champlain , the "father of New France," was born between 1567 and 1570 in the town of Brouage, a seaport on France's west coast and died...
Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier

male, deceased (1557)
Jacques Cartier (December 31, 1491 - September 1 1557) was a French navigator who first explored and described the Gulf of St-Lawrence and the...
Martin Frobisher

Martin Frobisher

male, deceased (1594)
Martin Frobisher was an English seaman (from Wakefield, Yorkshire) who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage. All...
Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson

male, deceased (1611)
Henry Hudson (September 12, 1570s - 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. His place of birth was London,...
Alexander MacKenzie

Alexander MacKenzie

male, deceased (1820)
Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1764 - March 11, 1820) was a Scottish-Canadian explorer. MacKenzie was born in Stornoway on the isle of Lewis in the Outer...
Henry Kelsey

Henry Kelsey

male, deceased (1724)
Henry Kelsey (c. 1667 - 1724), also known as Boy Kelsey, was an English fur trader, explorer, and sailor who played an important role in...
James Cook

James Cook

male, deceased (1779)
Captain James Cook FRS RN (27 October 1728 (O.S.) – 14 February 1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer. Ultimately rising to th...
John Cabot

John Cabot

male, deceased (1498)
Giovanni Caboto (c. 1450 - c.1498), known in English as John Cabot, and in French as Jean Cabot, was a Genoese navigator and explorer commonly...
John Franklin

John Franklin

male, deceased (1847)
Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin FRGS (April 15, 1786 - June 11, 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer who mapped almost two...
Simon Fraser

Simon Fraser

male, deceased (1862)
Simon Fraser (1776-18 August 1862) was a fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia....