Below is the nameline of all the people mentioned in the Discover Canada guide

Every person's name mentioned in the book is listed below.

If you think the list is missing one, please email us at contact@your-canada.com to help the community.

King Goarge III

The royal proclamation of 1763

1763
John Buchan

Popular Governor General of Canada

1935-40
John Cabot

the first person who drew a map of Canada's east coast

1497
Jacques Cartier

the person who claimed Canada for king Francis I of France

1534-42
Aboriginal people

people who their ancestors lived in Canada before the explorers arrived

Indian people

the major group of aboriginal people whom are referred as First Nations

Inuit

aboriginal people who live in harsh regions of the Arctic

Metis

a distinct people of mixed Aboriginal and European ancestry

Acadians

descendants of French colonists

Quebecers

people of Quebec

Marjorie Turner-Bailey

the Olympian who helped people to escape from America where slavery was legal

1780s
Huron-Wendat

farmers and hunters from the Great Lakes region

Iroquois

the people who the word 'Canada' came from their language

1534-42
Cree and Dene

hunter-gatherers from Northwest

Sioux

nomads(people who travel to find new grassland for their animals),they follow bison(buffalo)herds

Samuel de Champlain

established the first European settlement in north-America also built a fortress at what is now Québec City etc.

1604, 1608
Pierre de Monts

established the first European settlement in north-America

1604
Jean Talon

leader of French empire in north-America

1600s
Bishop Laval

leader of French empire in north-America

1600s
Count Frontenac

leader of French empire in north-America

1600s
King Charles II

he granted the Hudson’s Bay Company exclusive trading rights over the watershed draining into Hudson Bay

1670