Chapter 4

The European "Discovery" of Canada to 1632

• Jacques Cartier
  http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/cartier.html

  This page, part of Discoverers Web, has a biography of Cartier and links to related sites.

• Fur Trade
  http://collections.ic.gc.ca/hbc/catex6.htm

  This address leads to the Hudson's Bay Company's Digital Collection, based in the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature. The site offers images of artifacts of the fur trade, as well as links to the rest of the collection and its history.

• The Cod Fishery
  http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cod/

  This site provides an overview of the history of the northern cod fishery.

• St Croix Island
  http://collections.ic.gc.ca/saintcroixisland/
  http://collections.ic.gc.ca/ile-ste-croix

  These two sites provide a detailed history of the short lived French settlement on St. Croix Island in 1604-05.

• Investigating Ferryland
  http://www.heritage.nf.ca/avalon/arch

  This site explores the history and recent archeological investigations of the Ferryland settlement in Newfoundland.