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Explorers of Canada

            
             James Cook- Four years later Cook took two British ships onto the west coast. He was the first European to have landed on Vancouver Island at Nootka Sound. Within a few years British traders came by sea and developed a fur trade with coastal Indians. Cook kept traveling north to the Arctic Ocean but big icebergs blocked out the expedition, but Cook still charted the coast from his ship. He was the first sea captain to prevent the spread of scurvy a water disease aboard his ships by serving fruit and sauerkraut. He was also one of the first to carry a chronometer, which is a compass thus helped him find the exact position of the coast for other explorers. Cook sailed around the globe twice, which leads to make many colonies throughout the Pacific for the British. Hawaiian natives stabbed Cook to death when he landed in Hawaii.
             George Vancouver- After Cooks expedition it led to the arrival of many explorers. In England George Vancouver started surveying and charting the coast of North America on the Pacific. He carefully mapped out the coast from Oregon to Alaska. In 1971 Vancouver spent three years surveying the coast, he was equipped with the best navational instruments of his day. Sailing North Vancouver discovered that Vancouver Island was actually separated from the mainland, and that the body of water they were sailing in did not lead to a northwest passage. Vancouver is credited with writing two books of his voyage to Canada's coast called "A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean" and "Round the World". His accomplishments are remembered in the naming of Vancouver Island and the city of Vancouver<./images/pgallery/vancouver.jpg <./images/pgallery/vancouver.jpg.
             Alexander Mackenzie- In 1793 Mackenzie was the first European to travel from the east to the interior of British Columbia thus the first to report about the interior of British Columbia. He was up north at the Arctic but wanted to go to the Pacific Coast so he portaged to the Peace River and paddled down the river and portaged some more, which got him to the Ocean, where he came to the present day place Bella-Coola.


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