The Kids Book of Canadian Exploration

Owens Ann-Maureen

From Native peoples in search of new hunting grounds to European fishermen out for bigger catches explorers were drawn to Canada for many reasons. They discovered a vast and mysterious land that took hundreds of years to explore and map. But the story of Canadian exploration is about a lot more than mapping wilderness. With no new lands left to discover present-day explorers focus on outer space the ocean and the preservation of Earth's changing ecosystems.>