Chapter 3

Christopher Columbus
www1.minn.net/~keithp/index.htm

The Columbus Navigation Homepage provides information on navigation history, as well as general material on Columbus and his voyages. A timeline, maps of routes, and a select bibliography of further readings are available.

Jacques Cartier
www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/cartier.html

This page, part of Discoverers Web, contains a biography of Cartier and links to related sites.

Port Royal
www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/portroyal/

This Parks Canada site describes one of the earliest locations of European settlement in North America. It includes virtual tours and learning experiences for students.

Marie de l'Incarnation
www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/
kislak/religion/mincarnation.html

Civilization.ca presents maps, images, historical descriptions, and resources concerning the First Nations of the New France era.

The Vikings in Newfoundland
www.wordplay.com/tourism/viking.html

This site contains a portrait and a biography of Marie de L'Incarnation, and describes how missionaries and colonists aided in the preservation of Native languages by attempting to convert indigenous peoples to Christianity. Other links are available.

The European Enlightenment
www.newgenevacenter.org/west/enlightenment2.htm

The struggle between religious and secularist movements throughout European society and politics during the period of settlement in New France is outlined in this site.