Cabot set a more northerly route then Columbus, settling into higher Atlantic currents. Four and a half weeks later he sighted land. On St. John's Day -- June 24, 1497 Cabot set into a bay and ...

and Dutch efforts to find new routes to Asia. It highlights key figures such as John Cabot, who discovered parts of North America, and explorers like Giovanni da Verrazzano, Jacques Cartier ...

After John Cabot's 1497 voyage to North America ... to cross the Atlantic in search of riches and a route to China. Jacques Cartier, 1848. Artist: Theophile Hamel, National Archives of Canada ...