Newcomers: Imperial Context and European Arrival, to 1600
Explorers of Canada Leif and Thorvald Eriksson (1000) Fishing in the Grand Banks John Cabot (1497) Gaspar Corte Real (1500) Thomas Aubert (1508) Sebastian Cabot (1508 or 1509)
Explorers of Canada Giovanni de Varrazzano (1524) Jacques Cartier (1534-5, ) Martin Frobisher (1576-8) Francis Drake ( ) Juan de Fuco (1592)
Reasons for European Exploration of the New World, 1453 to 1600 Economic Political Intellectual Technological Religious Demographic
Contact Diplomacy Land / Sovereignty Disease Indigenous knowledge Trade Religion Marriage Warfare
Commemorating Cartier “Heroes, History and Two Nationalisms: Jacques Cartier” by Alan Gordon (1999)