Aboriginal Canada Portal
http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/acp/site.nsf/en-frames/ao04607.html
A great new resource that provides links to information about Canada's aboriginal peoples, including their history, traditions, housing, food and much more!

Exploration: The Fur Trade and the Hudson's Bay Company
http://www.canadiana.org/hbc/
Learn about the fur trade and how it led to the exploration of the country we know as Canada.  There is a timeline, a history of the fur industry, stories, and biographies of various explorers.

Passageways: True Tales of Adventure for Young Explorers
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/explorers/kids/index-e.html
This is a very comprehensive site where you can learn about how the First Nations and Inuit arrived in North America.  In addition, there are Explorer biographies, maps, illustrations and photos.

Zoom Explorers
http://www.zoomschool.com/explorers/
This site offers brief biographies on Canadian Explorers, as well as portraits and maps.

The Mariner's Museum
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/activities.php

The Mariners' Museum Age of Exploration On-Line Curriculum Guide contains materials that address maritime discovery from ancient times to Captain Cook's 1768 voyage to the South Pacific.