British Columbia History Portal

Historical Disciplines and Subjects -- Geography -- Discovery and Exploration

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Alexandro Malaspina Research Centre

"A resource for research about and interest in the 18th century Italian navigator," this Web site, created and maintained by John Black, a faculty member of Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, cont...

http://web.mala.bc.ca/black/amrc/index.htm

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American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920

American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations...

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/

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Arctic Blue Books Online

A "searchable, World-Wide Web version of Andrew Taylor's unique index to the 19th Century British Parliamentary Papers concerned with the Canadian Arctic." The full-text of the Arctic Blue Books are a...

http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/arcticbb/

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B.C. 150: Celebrating 150 Years of British Columbia

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation assembled a Web site commemorating the 150th anniversary of British Columbia and inviting public submissions of photographs and stories. The site also includes a ...

http://www.cbc.ca/bc/features/150

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Beyond the Map: The Explorers of the Pacific Northwest

Produced with the Maritime Museum of British Columbia for the Virtual Museum of Canada, this Web site examines the European colonization of the Pacific Northwest, the effects which it had on the First...

http://www.beyondthemap.ca

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Captain James Cook

A virtual and physical exhibit presented by Hanover College's Duggan Library between September 3 and December 14, 2007 on the voyages of Captain James Cook. The main purpose of the exhibit is to celeb...

http://library.hanover.edu/cook

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Discoverers Web

A guide to the subject of discovery and exploration.

http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/

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Heading West: Mapping the Territory

Online exhibit from the New York Public Library that highlights maps from its historical collections.

http://www.nypl.org/west/hw_subhome.shtml

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Malaspina Global Portal

"The portal with its associated multi-discipline Malaspina Great Books research database (est. 1995) is designed as a co-ordinating gateway for the growing number of international research and private...

http://www.malaspina.org/default.htm

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North American David Thompson Bicentennials

The North American David Thompson Bicentennials site offers a variety of information about the great Canadian explorer whose 200th anniversary of travels from east to west and north to south is being ...

http://www.davidthompson200.org/

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