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The European to make the most thorough exploration of Canada's interior was David Thompson. The Americans, Lewis and Clark, would follow him but were better writers and would be remembered while he would be almost forgotten. Moral: get a good publicist!

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the first European to explore Canada was Jacques cartier

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John was about 500 years after Lief the Lucky arrived in 1002 AD.

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