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Extractions: Knight's Canadian Info Collection The search for new territory and for ways around or through the North American continent, took explorers and traders farther and farther inland as the New World revealed its vast riches. Some of these early explorers from France, England and Italy looked for a safe passage to the Orient, and by failing in this task, they discovered bays, rivers, and lakes and some established settlements in the new land called Canada. James Cook (b.1728 - d. 1779) He joined the British Navy in 1755, at age 27. In 1768, the Navy appointed him leader of a scientific expedition to Tahiti. He set out on his first voyage round the world in the ship Endeavour. In October of 1769 Cook was the first European to visit New Zealand. In April 1770 he claimed the entire eastern coast of Australia for Great Britain. On Cook's second journey he sailed farther south than any other European. He circled Antarctica in his famous ship Resolution, but the ice surrounding the continent prevented the sighting of land. The existence of the Antarctica remained unproved until 1840. He returned to England in 1775 and was promoted to Captain. In July of 1776 Cook set sail on his third voyage, again in Resolution, to look for a possible northern sea route between Europe and Asia. In 1778 he became the first know European to reach the Hawaiian Islands. Later in 1778 Cook sailed up the northwest coast of North America, and was the first European to land on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. He continued up the coast through the Bering strait, and entered the Arctic Ocean. Great walls of ice blocked the expedition, so Cook headed back for the Hawaiian Islands. On February 14, 1779 Cook was stabbed to death by Hawaiian natives while investigating a theft of a boat by an islander. The expedition arrived back in England in October of 1780.
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Extractions: MIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION Arctic Exploration and Inuit Culture (E) Contact between explorers and Inuit Commemorates 1534 landing in what is now Canada Arvia'juaq and Qikiqtaarjuk (S), NU Inuit summer occupation sites with rich history and surviving in situ resource Back, Sir George (P), NT Artist and Arctic explorer; Franklin's 1819-22 and 1824-27 expeditions Baffin,William (P), NT Arctic explorer, mapped Hudson Strait and Davis Strait (1615-16) Bartlett, Captain Robert Abram (P), NF Arctic explorer, Peary Expedition (1908-09), Arctic voyages (1913-18, 1926-45) Beaubears Island (S), NB Acadian refugee settlement, 1756-59 Beechey Island Sites (S), NU Related to 19th-century Arctic exploration Belcher, Sir Edward (P), NS Canadian-born naval officer and surveyor, led 1852-54 Franklin search Bering-Yukon Refugium (E), YT Migration route between Siberia and America Black Loyalist Experience (E), NS Commemorates Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Coureur de bois, interpreter, lived among the Iroquois and Hurons Button, Sir Thomas (P), MB
Extractions: Black powder rifles roared and a large crowd of spectators saluted with a hearty cheer as four canoes, replicas of the 26 and 36-foot canoes used by early fir traders left Fort McMurray, Alberta on a 10-week 3500 km voyage to the Arctic Ocean. The expedition included 13 male and 12 female students, together with their co-leaders from Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Dr. Jim Smithers and graduate student Derek Apple. A small support crew accompanied the canoe brigade, occupying two Zodiac inflatable boats powered by Johnson Outboard motors. Four days earlier, the City of Fort McMurray, Syncrude Canada limited, the local canoe club, the two School Boards and the Heritage Society had staged an exciting welcome when the team arrived at the Snye on the Clearwater River. Sir Alexander Mackenzie, acted by student Phillip Boswell, and the expedition members had stepped ashore as over 140 residents in 70 recreation canoes had watched from offshore, together with spectators and reporters on shore. The crossing of Lake Athabasca turned out to be an exciting all-out effort to match the swells and waves There were periods of light rain and tough winds from the northeast, but all four boats were able to gather beneath the granite bluffs of Fort Chipewyan. where they were greeted by a Canadian Parks Service interpreter and a small group of Native children
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Extractions: Graeme M. Mackenzie MA Graeme Murray Mackenzie was born in 1951 in London, and was educated at The Leys School, from whence he won a scholarship in 1969 to study history at Emmanuel College in the University of Cambridge. After graduation Graeme taught history part-time, and worked in a number of other jobs, including pulling pints at Cambridge pub "The Eagle". In the late 1970s he created "The Eagle" cricket team and helped organise a local Pub Cricket League of which he was the first Chairman. In the early 1980s Graeme founded local music magazine "Blue Suede News", and became a part-time presenter on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. He was also involved for a number of years in the organisation and promotion of the world famous "Cambridge Folk Festival". In the mid-1980s Graeme's BBC work moved into the production and presentation of music and current affairs documentaries, and in 1986-87 he conceived, researched, wrote, and presented a major ten part historical series - "A Power in the Land" - which looked at national history from a regional perspective, and was one of the first such series to be networked on local radio. It was whilst researching East Anglian families for this series that Graeme began to take an interest in genealogy; and this was eventually to lead him to return to Scotland to investigate his own ancestry, and to learn all the Scottish history that he had missed whilst studying "British History" at an English university. In 1989 Graeme set up his
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Extractions: Home Bella Coola Wilderness Adventures Nautical Grizzly Tours General Information ... Captain George Vancouver Twin Eagles Snowslide at Kynoch Cedar Forest Mt. Nusatsum Lone Buck Killer Whale Having a Look Mesachie Nose Sunset on calm water Labouchere Channel Grizzly Fishing Pacific white sided Dolphin Sandy Beaches Great Blue Heron Sunset in the pass Black Bears Dean River Flats Sundown Juvenille Grizzly Thorsen Creek Petroglyphs Inside the Snow Slide Jumping Spring Salmon Waterfall in Dean Channel Looking south down Matheson Kermode Bear Eagle Fight Columbia Blacktail Wash Wash Levi Creek Thunderbird Sundown Top of a waterfall Glacial Hills Willow Ptarmigan Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1764 - March 1820) Alexander Mackenzie, Explorer and Fur Trader was born in Scotland in 1764 and emigrated with his father to New York at the age of ten. In 1779 he entered the service of a Montreal firm engaged in the fur trade. After working for five years in the companies Montreal office he obtained a share in the business and became a trader in the West. In 1788 he was put in charge of trade in the Athabasca region and settled at Fort Chipewyan on the South shore of Lake Athabasca. This was the staging point for the two expeditions which finally enabled him to reach the Pacific. He made two trips; one to the Arctic Ocean in 1789, and another to the Pacific Ocean in 1793.
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Extractions: Fields of Fire offers a stunning reversal of accepted military history. Terry Copp challenges and refutes the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a 'failure': that the allies won only through the use of 'brute force,' and that the Canadian soldiers and commanding officers were essentially incompetent. His detailed and impeccably researched analysis of what actually happened on the battlefield portrays a flexible, innovative army that made a major, and successful, contribution to the defeat of the German forces in just seventy-six days.
Annapolis Collection Life of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry by alexander Slidell mackenzie, 1840. Lifeof Napolean Buonaparte by sir Walter Scott, 1827. http://www.usna.edu/LibExhibits/Anniv_25th/annapolis1.htm
Extractions: U.S. Naval Academy In 1845, the United States Naval Academy Library consisted of 361 books, some of which had been purchased new, but many of which were sent from ships or naval yards around the country in response to a navy-wide request to help build the Library. It is interesting to note that in 1848, Midshipman (and future Commodore) William Penn McCann wrote in a letter to his father: "There is a good library here, especially for Naval scholars." ( Letters from Annapolis: Midshipmen Write Home by Anne Marie Drew, 1998. McCann's original letters are located in the Nimitz Library Special Collections and Archives Division.) The following is a list of some of the books that McCann would have found in the original library collection. These books are now a part of the "Annapolis Collection," located in the Special Collections of the Naval Academy Library. To assist in browsing, we have organized the list into the following broad subject areas: General topics History Travel and Exploration Law ... Engineering , and Naval and Military Science
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Extractions: History ... MAIN MENU History - Canada (page 4) page 1: General history Chronology Historical geography page 2: Biography, demography and genealogy page 3: Emblems, symbols and flags Constitutional history Politics and government page 4: Discovery and exploration page 5: Migration and settlement page 6: The British colonial period Canada, the nation page 7: Economic history Exploitation of natural resources, Industries and trades, Labor, Commerce, Finance page 8: Transportation history Water transportation, Railways, Air transportation, Space flight Communications history page 9: Religious history Social history Women's history Pathfinders and Passageways: The Exploration of Canada
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Extractions: In Runes of the North Sigurd F. Olson explores the haunting appeal of the wilderness. He recounts how the legends of the northern vastness of Canada and Alaska have influenced him, weaving the tales and myths with his own stories and experiences as an explorer, writer, grandfather, and biologist. Now available in paperback for the first time, Runes...
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Extractions: Samuel de Champlain page 2 Samuel de Champlain, Father of New France . Toronto and Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1972. Morison explains how Champlain was also an artist and illustrator, a military engineer and designer, a mapmaker and cartographer, and a skilful writer whose Voyages are a rich source of Canadian history. His Treatise on Seamanship, printed in this book, is a practical handbook of navigation for that time. This book prints many of his illustrations. Exploration and colonizing activity required courage, leadership and dedication. Morison depicts Champlain as one of the most remarkable explorers of world history, arguably the most important in Canada's early and subsequent history. This book is based on an excellent knowledge of the literature of exploration, of early Canadian history, and of the waters and rivers of North America as appreciated by a sailor-historian. Continue on to Henry Kelsey
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Extractions: Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, editing and updating this biography please Click Here Virtual American Biographies Over 30,000 personalities with thousands of 19th Century illustrations, signatures, and exceptional life stories. Virtualology.com welcomes editing and additions to the biographies. To become this site's editor or a contributor Click Here or e-mail Virtualology here A B C ... Z Unauthorized Site: This site and its contents are not affiliated, connected, associated with or authorized by the individual, family, friends, or trademarked entities utilizing any part or the subjects entire name. Any official or affiliated sites that are related to this subject will be hyper linked below upon submission and Virtualology's review. 2000 by Virtualology TM . All rights reserved.
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Extractions: This is my own, my native land?" Sir Walter Scott Scots haven't always left Scotland by choice. Reasons for leaving their native land were myriad - to avoid religious persecution, because their military prowess was in demand by European monarchs, because their old way of life was changing, or to escape poverty and hardship. Scotland is a small nation yet it is thought that 50 million or more Americans have Scottish blood. The Scots gained a reputation for courage, hard work, perseverance and thrift. Few Scots forgot their homeland and their roots even though they were in Canada, Australia or the U.S. The history of the Highland Clearances shows that many Highlanders were forced to leave their ancestral lands to make way for sheep. Sir John Sinclair of Ulster brought the sheep to his land for the benefit of his people, but was unable to prevent others from using it to oust theirs. The land was owned mainly by absentee landlords, some who probably had not even seen the land that they owned or leased. Many lived in England or the Lowlands and used the rents from the lands to support their style of life. The land could not support both people and sheep and since sheep were more profitable to the landlords, the people were evicted from the land. There are many glens which remain empty to this day. The people were historically used to obeying the word and law of the Clan Chief. During this shameful period of history, the clan chiefs failed their people. The Clearances may well have been the end of the clan system as it was then known.
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Extractions: World War II How to do Research using the Navigation Aids: 1. By clicking on the Hotlinks, you will be taken directly to the exact location where the Topic is located on the page. 2. When you click on a site located under a topic, another browser window will open automatically for you on top of this page. With your mouse, pull that window down below the Topic you are researching. Every time you now click on a site, the material will appear in this window. This will allow you to quickly and easily read the material and go through each site listed without losing this page. Remember to cite the "web sites and their authors" given below as your information "sources" in your paper or presentation for citation/bibliographic purposes. Hotlinks: Table of Contents: African Americans Appeasement: Chamberlain/Hitler Atomic Weapons Bataan Death March ... FAQ's - different page France Germany in WW II Glossaries and Terms Japan in WW II ... The Holocaust Homefronts: Canada USA Internment Japanese ... Marshall, General George
