Category
page 1Explorers of Canada
Roald Amundsen
Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole (1872–1928)
Jacques Cartier
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
Leif Erikson
norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)
Samuel de Champlain
16/17th-century French explorer of North America
Henry Hudson
English explorer b1565

John Cabot
Italian navigator and explorer (c. 1450 – c. 1499)
George Vancouver
English naval explorer (1757–1798)
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Florentine explorer of North America for France
William Baffin
British explorer
John Franklin
British naval officer and explorer (1786–1847)

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America
Knud Rasmussen
Danish explorer and anthropologist

Martin Frobisher
English seaman and privateer (1535–1594)

John Davis
English explorer and navigator (1550–1605)

Alexander Mackenzie
Scottish explorer

John Ross
Scottish naval officer and polar explorer (1777–1856)

Sebastian Cabot
Venetian explorer and mapmaker in the service of Spain and England
Jacques Marquette
French Jesuit and explorer (1637-1675)

Otto Sverdrup
Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer (1854-1930)

William Edward Parry
English naval officer and Arctic explorer (1790–1855)
Bjarni Herjólfsson
Norse explorer, first known European discoverer of the mainland of the Americas
Humphrey Gilbert
English explorer, politician and soldier (1539-1583)
David Thompson
British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker (1770-1857)
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Canadian-born explorer (1879–1962)
Gaspar Corte-Real
Portuguese explorer
Robert John McClure
Royal Navy admiral and arctic explorer (1807–1873)
Frederick William Beechey
English naval officer and hydrographer (1796-1856)
Edward Belcher
British naval officer, hydrographer and explorer (1799-1877)

Samuel Hearne
British explorer
Étienne Brûlé
French explorer
Thorvald Eiriksson
Icelandic explorer
John Rae
Scottish explorer (1813-1893)
Henry Kellett
British Royal Navy vice admiral (1806-1875)
Louis Hennepin
Belgian explorer and missionary (1626-1704)

Leopold McClintock
Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy (1819-1907)
George Back
British Royal Navy admiral (1796–1878)
Luke Foxe
English explorer
Thomas Button
Royal Navy officer and explorer
Simon Fraser
Scottish fur trader and an explorer in British Columbia (1776-1862)
Thomas Blakiston
British zoologist (1832–1891)
Elisha Kent Kane
American explorer and military medical officer (1820–1857)
Christopher Middleton
Royal Navy officer
Miguel Corte-Real
Portuguese explorer
Robert Gray
American merchant sea captain
Pierre-Jean De Smet
Jesuit priest and missionary (1801–1873)
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye
French Canadian explorer and trader (1685-1749)
Frederick Schwatka
American writer (1849–1892)
Jean Nicolet
French explorer & independent fur-trader (Born: C.E.1598—Demised: C.E.1642)
Pierre-Esprit Radisson
French explorer
Robert Abram Bartlett
Newfoundland-American explorer
Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons
French merchant and explorer
João Álvares Fagundes
Portuguese explorer
Jean-François Roberval
French privateer and governor (c. 1500–1560)
Robert Bylot
British explorer
Robert McCormick
Royal Navy surgeon and explorer (1800–1890)
Eugène Bourgeau
French botanist (1813-1877)
Henry Kelsey
Canadian explorer
Horatio Thomas Austin
British Royal Navy officer and explorer (1800-1865)
John Palliser
British explorer (1817–1887)
Charles Albanel
explorer of Canada and Jesuit priest