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Canada!

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  • Great Bear Lake
    world's seventh largest freshwater lake and the largest lake entirely within Canada
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  • Mackenzie River
    Canada's longest river
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  • Western Cordillera Mountain Chain
    stretches from the southern tip of South America to the Arctic Ocean
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  • Canadian Rockies
    important mountain chain in Western Canada
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  • Appalachian Mountains
    stretch from the southern US up to Nova Scotia
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  • Vikings
    fierce warriors from Scandinavia who were skilled craftsmen and daring seamen
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  • Leif Ericson
    Viking who discovered the North American continent
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  • Christopher Columbus
    the first modern explorer to discover the New World
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  • John Cabot
    the first modern explorer to reach the North American mainland
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  • John Cabot
    claimed Canada in the name of England
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  • Northwest Passage
    mythical sea route from North America to Asia
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  • Jacques Cartier
    French explorer who was looking for the Northwest Passage; he didn't find that, but he did discover the Gulf of St. Lawrence. He traded with the Nativ...
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  • Jacque Cartier's explorations
    gave France a claim to Canada and opened the way for a valuable fur trade between the French and the Indians
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  • Samuel de Champlain
    French explorer who established a fur trade with Native Americans and who discovered Lake Champlain
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  • Samuel de Champlain
    helped build Quebec
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  • Quebec
    built in 1608; the first important French settlement in the New World
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