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People: Cree
Big Bear Big Bear was a devoted Cree chief who sought to unite his followers in a political resistance during the North West Rebellion but lost out to extremists.
ID #20752
Poundmaker and Wife Poundmaker, a powerful Cree chieftain who tried restrain Cree attacks on the whites during the North West Rebellion but was subsequently arrested and imprisoned, and his wife.
ID #20753
People: Explorers
Canada Claimed For France Jacques Cartier, claiming Canada for France at Gaspé in 1534, in a Montreal newspaper rendition done in 1908.
ID #10080
La Salle at the Humber Robert Cavalier de La Salle, French fur-trade explorer, at the mouth of the Humber River, future site of Toronto, Ontario, 1681. By G.A. Reid (1860-1947).
ID #20622
La Salle at the Mississippi Robert Cavalier de La Salle at the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1682, having traced the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico and adding enormously to the French empire. By J.N. Marchland
ID #20063
Henry Kelsey An imaginative reconstruction of young Henry Kelsey first encountering buffalo on the Plains, 1691, exploring for the Hudson's Bay Company.
ID #10116
Marquette and Jolliet Father Marquette and Jolliet on the Mississippi, exploring toward the south.
ID #10124
People: Iroquois
Cartier on the St. Lawrence A rather mythical view of Jacques Cartier on the St. Lawrence River and an encounter with the St. Lawrence Valley Iroquois in 1535. An engraving by Chavane.
ID #21671
Frontenac Expedition Frontenac expedition against the Iroquois, 1695.
ID #21799
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