• Henry Kelsey
• Anthony Henday
• David Thompson
• Samuel Hearne
• LaVerendryes
• Peter Pond
• Peter Fidler
• John Palliser
• Historic sites
• Teachers Resources
• OLC Resources

Related Resources & Links:

Explorers and fur traders may include:

• Henry Kelsey
  • Great Canadian Explorers **(French version)
  • Passageways: Henry Kelsey: On the Trail of Native Friends
  • Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company **(French version)
• Anthony Henday
  • Alberta – How the West was Young – Fur Traders, Missionaries & Explorers - Biographies
  • The Applied History Research Group - University of Calgary
• David Thompson
  • Great Canadian Explorers **(French version)
  • Passageways: David Thompson: The Man Who Looks at Stars
  • Infoplease
• Samuel Hearne
  • Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company - Personalities ** (French version)
  • Passageways: Samuel Hearne and Matonabbee's Trek to the Arctic Ocean
  • Infoplease
  • Hearne (1769-1772)
• The LaVerendryes
  • Great Canadian Explorers **(French version)
  • Passageways: The La Vérendryes: Family of Explorers
  • Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company **(French version)
  • The Explorers - The Virtual Museum of New France **(French version)
  • Infoplease
  • Enchanted Learning
  • La Verendrye and Sons (1727-1743)
• Peter Pond
  • Alberta – How the West was Young – Fur Traders, Missionaries & Explorers - Biographies
  • Infoplease
  • Peter Pond Society
  • The Columbia Encyclopedia
• Peter Fidler
  • Alberta – How the West was Young – Fur Traders, Missionaries & Explorers - Biographies
• John Palliser
  • Alberta – How the West was Young – Fur Traders, Missionaries & Explorers - Biographies

Historic sites

• Fort Carlton
  • Virtual Saskatchewan - Fur Trading at Fort Carlton
• Fort Battleford
  • On-line Guided Tour - Parks Canada
  • Virtual Saskatchewan - Fort Battleford National Historic Site
• Fort Pitt
  • Encyclopedia Of Saskatchewan
• Fort Walsh
  • On-line Guided Tour - Parks Canada
  • Virtual Saskatchewan - Fort Walsh and the Mounties
  • Encyclopedia Of Saskatchewan
• Batoche
  • Saskatchewan Interactive
  • On-line Guided Tour - Parks Canada
  • Virtual Saskatchewan - Batoche

Teachers Resources

• Great Canadian Explorers
• Les grands explorateurs du canada
  • Part of the "The About Canada Annotated Bibliographies" site designed and researched by the Mount Allison University Centre for Canadian Studies in partnership with the Canadian Studies Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
• Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company
• L'exploration, le commerce de la fourrure et Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson
  • This site is about the fur trade in Canada and how it led to the exploration of the country and the formation of the oldest and largest company in Canadian history: Hudson's Bay Company. It has has been written so students ages 9 and up can use it easily. It includes in-text questions to encourage higher-level thinking. Also included are teaching suggestions for this topic, with learning expectations and outcomes identified.
• National Library of Canada - Alphabetical List of Explorers
• Bibliothèque nationale du Canada - Liste alphabetique
  • An alphabetical listing of explorers' last names
• Passageways - Explorers' Index
  • A shortcut to the explorer of your choice
• Infoplease.com Encyclopedia
  • Access more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
• Early Explorers of Canada

• Online Resources from the OLC
  • Threee web based lessons on Fur Traders