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Description: As early as 1000 CE, encounters between Europeans and First Peoples often led to violence.
Site: Canadian War Museum
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Description: A list of the most important military engagements, both inside and outside Canada, that had an effect on the country.
Site: National Defence
Title: Viking Expansion Westward
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Description: The Viking attempt to settle in North America was part of a westward drive from Scandinavia that had already settled Iceland and Greenland.
Site: National Defence
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Description: These objects of Viking origin were found during excavations on Ellesmere and Baffin islands. Fragments of a coat of mail are shown on the right, and iron rivets on the left. Also to be seen are part of a bowl (top) and the arm of a scale with bronze hinges (centre). (Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau)
Site: National Defence
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Description: This house was reconstructed in the style of those built by the Vikings at l'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland around the year 1000. (Parks Canada)
Site: National Defence
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Description: A Viking colony led by Karlsefni was soon abandoned after conflict with the Skraelings
Site: National Defence
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Description: This Norman (or Viking) warrior wears the typical 'Norman' type helmet with its nose guard and a coat of mail. Vestiges of chain mail have been found in the Canadian Arctic. Print after Viollet-Leduc from the Bayeux tapestry.
Site: National Defence
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Description: This view was conceived during the 1930s by historical artist Fergus Kyle (1876-1941). Although we now know that Viking helmets did not have horns, as shown here and in countless other images in popular art, most of the other details shown give a relatively realistic impression of what such a settlement might look like. The Vikings also could build timber houses as well as ones made of earth.
Site: National Defence
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Description: This Norman (or Viking) axe man holds a Danish style battle axe. Vikings were also called 'Norman' - men of the north - by the Dark Ages French. A large group of Vikings occupied and settled on the north-western coast of France in what became Normandy. This is the region from which many of the French settlers to New France came in the 17th century. It is also where the Canadian Army landed on D-Day on 6 June 1944. Print after Viollet-Leduc from the Bayeux tapestry.
Site: National Defence
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Description: The first armed European incursion into Canada was driven off by the native population. The Vikings felt the land, although good, was not worth a life dominated by battle and fear.
Site: National Defence
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