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• The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)

• The Lure of the Labrador Wild: The Story of the Exploring Expedition Conducted by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., by Dillon Wallace (Gutenberg text)

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• Expedition of the Sieur De Champlain Against the Onondagas in 1615: Comprising an Inquiry Into the Route of the Expedition, and the Location of the Iroquois Fort Which Was Besieged (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1885), by Orsamus Holmes Marshall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)
• Pioneers of France in the New World, by Francis Parkman (Gutenberg text)
• Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, by Samuel de Champlain, trans. by Charles Pomeroy Otis, contrib. by Edmund F. Slafter
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
  • volume III: Gutenberg text

• Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Cyclone Covey (HTML at Eldritch Press)
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus: To Which Are Added Those of His Companions (volumes from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving
  • Volume I: page images at MOA
  • Volume II: page images at MOA
  • Volume III: page images at MOA
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Richard Field, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Roger Ward, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)

• The English Hero, or Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd (London: Printed for N. Crouch, 1695), by R. B. (page images at LOC)

• The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)
• Laperouse, by Ernest Scott
  • PDF at SETIS
  • Gutenberg text

• John Cabot, the Discoverer of North America and Sebastian, His Son: A Chapter of the Maritime History of England Under the Tudors, 1496-1557 (London: Stevens, 1896), by Henry Harrisse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1893), by Isabel Burton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Thomas Wright (Gutenberg text)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Richard Field, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Roger Ward, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
• The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton (London: H. S. Nichols, 1896), by Georgiana M. Stisted (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Discourse in Commendation of the Valiant as Vertuous Minded Gentleman, Maister Frauncis Drake, With a Reioysing of His Happy Aduentures (1581), by Nicholas Breton (page images at LOC)
• The English Hero, or Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd (London: Printed for N. Crouch, 1695), by R. B. (page images at LOC)
• The Life of Captain James Cook (Basel, Switzerland: Printed by J.J. Tourneisen, 1788), by Andrew Kippis
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Simon Fraser (Toronto: Ryerson Press, ca. 1928), by Vernon Llewllyn Denton, illust. by Charles W. Jefferys (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Cyclone Covey (HTML at Eldritch Press)
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus: To Which Are Added Those of His Companions (volumes from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving
  • Volume I: page images at MOA
  • Volume II: page images at MOA
  • Volume III: page images at MOA

• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (based on the 1912 Stokes edition), by Matthew Alexander Henson, contrib. by Robert E. Peary and Booker T. Washington (PDF with commentary at matthewhenson.com)

• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving
  • HTML at xmission.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (a volume from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)

• The Canadian Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
  • Ontario volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Quebec and Maritimes Volume: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Canadian Men and Women of the Time: A Handbook of Canadian Biography (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1898), ed. by Henry J. Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Canadian Notabilities (Toronto: J.B. Magurn, 1880), by John Charles Dent
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Canadian Portrait Gallery (Toronto : J.B. Magurn, 1880-1881), by John Charles Dent
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: page images at canadiana.org
  • volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Canadian Scene: Sketches, Political and Historical (1927), by Hector Willoughby Charlesworth (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time (Toronto: Rose Pub. Co., 1886), by George Maclean Rose (page images at canadiana.org)
• A Little Book of Canadian Essays (Toronto: Musson Book Co., c1909), by Lawrence J. Burpee
  • HTML at Gutenberg Canada
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Memoirs of Charles Dennis Rusoe D'Eres, a Native of Canada Who Was With the Scanyawtauragahroote Indians Eleven Years (Exeter, England: Printed for, and sold by Henry Ranlet, 1800), by Charles Dennis Rusoe D'Eres (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sketches of Celebrated Canadians and Persons Connected With Canada: From the Earliest Period in the History of the Province Down to the Present Time (Montreal: R. Worthington, 1865), by Henry J. Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Laura Secord, and Canadian Reminiscences (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1900), by Emma Augusta Currie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tuttle's Popular History of the Dominion of Canada With Art Illustrations From the Earliest Settlement of the British-American Colonies to the Present Time, Together With Portrait Engravings and Biographical Sketches of the Most Distinguished Men of the Nation (Montreal; Boston: Downie; Tuttle & Downie, 1877), by Charles R. Tuttle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (in English and French) (searchable HTML at biographi.ca)

• Bibliotheca Canadensis, or, A Manual of Canadian Literature (1867), by Henry J. Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beaver Hills Country: A History of Land and Life (Edmonton: AU Press, c2009), by Graham A. MacDonald (PDF files at AU Press)

• Biographical Dictionary of Well-known British Columbians: With a Historical Sketch (Vancouver: Kerr & Begg, 1890), by John Blaine Kerr (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Lives of the Judges of Upper Canada and Ontario: From 1791 to the Present Time (Toronto: Rowsell & Hutchison, 1888), by David Breakenridge Read (page images at canadiana.org)

• From Slavery To a Bishopric, or, The Life of Bishop Walter Hawkins of the British Methodist Episcopal Church Canada, by S. J. Celestine Edwards (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• From Slavery To a Bishopric, or, The Life of Bishop Walter Hawkins of the British Methodist Episcopal Church Canada, by S. J. Celestine Edwards (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• J. C. Boileau Grant: Anatomist Extraordinary (Markham, ON: Associated Medical Services and Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1993), by Clayton Robinson (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• Harold Griffith: The Evolution of Modern Anaesthesia (Toronto and Oxford: Hannah Institute and Dundurn Press, c1992), by Richard Bodman and Deirdre Gillies (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• Old Plantation Days (1902), by William Mallory (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of a Captivity Among the Mohawk Indians, and a Description of New Netherland in 1642-3 (New York: Press of the Historical Society, 1856), by Isaac Jogues and John Gilmary Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Autobiography of a Wesleyan Methodist Missionary (Formerly a Roman Catholic): Containing an Account of His Conversion from Romanism and His Reception Into the Wesleyan Ministry; Also, Reminiscences of Nearly Twenty-Five Years' Itinerancy in the North American Provinces, &c. (Montreal: E. Pickup, 1856), by Robert Cooney (multiple formats at archive.org)

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