2.3: Other Famous Explorers
Martin Frobisher
Martin Frobisher
- British explorer
- Left for the Arctic in 1576
- Wanted to trade with Asians
- clothes, linens, ribbons, jewelry, purses, mirrors, etc.
- Before arriving in Asia, he explored the arctic and found iron pyrite (fools gold)
- returned to Britain with the "gold" only to be told, by an expert, it was fake
- Found an Italian expert who disagreed with the previous expert
- Returned to the arctic and mined 1000 tonnes of the iron pyrite, and found no gold.
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson
- British explorer
- Left Europe in 1610 to find a Northwest passage between Europe and Asia
- His ship, the Discovery, was trapped in Hudson Bay in 1611.
- Hudson wanted to explore after a long winter of battling scurvy and starvation
- His crew rebelled and abandoned him
- Hudson and his son with seven other men used a small boat to explore
- After Hudson died, the Woodland Cree adopted his son
Rene - Robert Cavelier de la Salle
Rene - Robert Cavelier de la Salle
- French explorer
- Traveled down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
- Claimed the areas from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico for France
- S-T-R-E-T-C-H-T-E-D the truth for his benefit
- was caught lying about his language skills with the Haudenosaunee
- mapped the mouth of the Mississippi west of its actual location in order to gain control of Mexico
- was shot by his crew that rebelled against him, in Texas 1685
Pierre Gaultier de la Verendrye
Pierre Gaultier de la Verendrye
- Born in New France ~1688
- was a soldier until he was ~27 years old
- Farmed for 16 years
- On the word of the Anishinabe, he traveled west of the Great Lakes in search of the "great western sea", in search of a route to Asia
- His sons continued the quest and became the first non-Aboriginal people to travel the Great Plains and see the Rocky Mountains.
Matonabbee and Samuel Hearne
Matonabbee and Samuel Hearne
- Matonabbee was a leader of the Dene Suline tribe
- Samuel Hearne was a British explorer
- Traveled together for 2 years, while Hearne was searching for the passage to Asia
- Hearne lost all his toenails to frostbite, but survived with Maronabbee's assistance
Alexander Mackenzie
Alexander Mackenzie
- British explorer
- First European to reach the west coast of Canada, traveling by land
- In 1789, traveled the Mackenzie River hoping to find the Pacific Ocean, but instead it flows to the Arctic Ocean
- In 1793, he traveled the Peace River, which led him to BC interior and on to the Pacific.