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Description: During the 16th century, European fishermen, whalers, traders, adventurers, and explorers visited the eastern seaboard of North America and established a lucrative fur trade by the early 1600s. While fishermen and whalers had generally co-operated with First Peoples in exchanging goods, permanent European settlement and involvement in the fur trade with Hurons and Algonkians soon led the French to join these nations in their war with the Iroquois Confederacy.
Site: Canadian War Museum
Title: Other Fruitless Expeditions
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Description: Martin Frobisher led unsuccessful English expeditions to find the Northwest Passage. There were conflicts with the Inuit. Other English mariners also voyaged to the region around Labrador.
Site: National Defence
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Description: Follow the voyages of Martin Frobisher in 1576-1578 as he searches for gold and the Northwest Passage to Asia.
Site: National Defence
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Description: Cartier points to the arms of France on the cross during a ceremony taking possession of Canada for France. Men-at-arms were with the early explorers. Print after Louis-Charles Bombled.
Site: National Defence
Title: A Spanish Ocean
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Description: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the European wars that had touched the eastern coasts of North and South America left the Pacific untroubled. From the European point of view, the region was largely unexplored, despite being bordered by Spanish colonies.
Site: National Defence
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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
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Description: Europeans were also acquainted with the savagery of torture. It was routinely used by judicial authorities to obtain confessions from suspects. Such practices were occasionally resorted to by tribunals in New France. Public executions of the guilty in Europe could also be horrendous torture spectacles. Religious Inquisition tribunals practiced it mercilessly on supposed heretics in the name of Christianity as shown in this print.
Site: National Defence
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Description: During Cartier's three expeditions to Canada, there were more and more soldiers among his men. The later expeditions were very well armed.
Site: National Defence
Title: Canada's First Warriors
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Description: A slide show presentation of Native American dress from the 16th to mid-18th century.
Site: National Defence
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Description: The men of Roberval's 1542 expedition are shown in several spots on this 1546 map of New France by Pierre Descelliers. (Library and Archives Canada NMC 40461)
Site: National Defence
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