Explorers and Pathfinders (Canada: A People's History) |
| To understand the Canada in
which we live today, we must look back in time to the arrival of the first
Europeans. This was a vast land, totally unknown to the first explorers, people who had crossed the ocean in tiny ships and arrived here without maps to guide them. In Explorers and Pathfinders, we learn of their first encounters with the people who already lived there, the First Nation peoples, and how working together they began to explore and map the wilderness. |
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| With a special focus on the theme of taking risks, Explorers and
Pathfinders looks at the adventurers who were inspired to travel to an
unknown continent, and examines the risks, challenges, dangers, and triumphs of
their lives. Richly illustrated with maps, historical graphics, documents, paintings, and portraits, the book portrays the arrival of these new explorers, and profiles the adventurers – both men and women – who both shaped and recorded their experiences here. The book examines the rivalries between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company in their drive to exploit the riches of this newfound land, and chronicles the search for the Northwest Passage by those explorers intent on finding a way to the East. Explorers and Pathfinders examines Canada's earliest settlements, the underlying reasons for them, as well as the conflicts that arose because of them. Like other titles in this series, the book is based on and carefully linked to the popular CBC/Radio-Canada series Canada: A People's History. Written by Don Quinlan. Published by Fitzhenry Whiteside Ltd., 2004. |
| Catalogue No. | 1-55041-444-5 |
| Price | $23.95 |
| Format | Softcover |
| Pages | 68 |
| Language | English only |
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