Exploration of Canada

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:explores Indigenous people
French explorers
Spanish explorers
English explorers
Portuguese explorers
gptkbp:firstEuropeanSettlement gptkb:John_Cabot
gptkbp:firstFrenchExplorer gptkb:Jacques_Cartier
gptkbp:firstPermanentSettlement gptkb:Quebec_City
gptkbp:firstPermanentSettlementYear 1608
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Exploration of Canada
gptkbp:location gptkb:Canada
gptkbp:notableMission gptkb:Alexander_Mackenzie
gptkb:Samuel_de_Champlain
gptkb:Franklin_Expedition
gptkb:Pierre_Gaultier_de_Varennes,_sieur_de_La_Vérendrye
gptkb:David_Thompson
gptkb:Cartier's_voyages
gptkb:Hudson's_voyages
gptkb:La_Vérendrye_expeditions
gptkb:Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition_(western_Canada)
gptkb:Mackenzie_crossing_to_the_Pacific
gptkb:Mackenzie_expedition_to_the_Arctic_Ocean
gptkb:Thompson's_mapping_of_the_west
gptkb:Henry_Hudson
gptkb:Jacques_Cartier
gptkb:Martin_Frobisher
gptkb:John_Cabot
gptkb:Frobisher_expeditions
Cabot's voyage
Champlain's explorations
Hudson's Bay Company explorations
North West Company explorations
gptkbp:period 16th century
17th century
15th century
gptkbp:purpose fur trade
search for Northwest Passage
claiming land for European powers
mapping territory
gptkbp:resultedIn gptkb:colonialism
contact with Indigenous peoples
fur trade expansion
mapping of Canada
gptkbp:significantBayExplored gptkb:Hudson_Bay
gptkb:James_Bay
gptkbp:significantRiverExplored gptkb:Fraser_River
gptkb:Mackenzie_River
gptkb:St._Lawrence_River
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Gjøa_expedition
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7