Exploring the Atlantic Coast, 16th, 17th Centuries

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During the 16th and 17th centuries European discoverers crossing the Atlantic Ocean clung to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Great Lakes, and Hudson Bay – water bodies that were reassuringly familiar in appearance when compared with the dark continental world of North America. Forests looked impenetrable, contrasting sharply with waterways suitable to sailing ships. More 

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