Early Voyages and Northern Approaches 1000-1632
Volume I of the Canadian Centenary Series
Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself.
Professor Oleson rediscovers the journeys of the Norse people from Iceland towards Arctic Canada, five hundred years before Columbus’ exploits. These Christian Europeans settled with Indigenous Canadians, building stone settlements, trapping and exporting the prized white falcon and polar bear to the courts of medieval Europe, and producing the unique Thule people, ancestors of the modern Inuit. In fact, Professor Oleson’s research has traced…
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November 1, 2016Professor TRYGGVI J. OLESON (1912--1963) of the University of Manitoba was the foremost authority on Canada’s early Arctic history. Of Icelandic descent, Professor Oleson was born in Glenboro, Manitoba, and received his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Manitoba and his doctorate at the University of Toronto. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a former Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, Professor Oleson published many articles in Canadian and British historical journals on the subject of Arctic history. He was the author of The Witanegemot in the Reign of Edward the Confessor and co-author and editor of Saga Islendinga I Vesturheimi ("History of the Icelanders in the Western Hemisphere").
