Summary
Description
This map shows the routes followed by the principal explorers of what is now Canada, from 1497 up to 1905. The map also shows the location of forts with the date of their establishment. It was created using Image:Canada, Routes of Explorers,1497 to 1905.jpg. Image remains at original size and was created using copy past from the pdf file into Microsoft Photo Editor.
Sources
"Routes of Explorers,1497 to 1905". National Resources Canada, Modified 2005-03-23, <http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/archives/1stedition/historical/page32?w=4&h=4&l=1&r=0&c=0#download>, Accessed 01-26-2007.
Licensing
Any work that I user:CyclePat did for editing this picture is released under GFDL and all that other mombo jumbo that essentially says you can do what you want.
Take note:Maps in the Atlas of Canada are offered for personal, public non-commercial and commercial use and may be reproduced. For details please go to the important notices.
This image is Free to use with the condition the coorporations advise the NRC so they may send them one of the most up to date pictures. The NRC is a government organization of Canada and for this reason it is believed that this image meets the requirement for Free Use.
Further more, if by pure argument it didn't meet the GNU free licence, under the
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