- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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