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Charles V and the Discovery of Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

H. P. Biggar
Affiliation:
(of the Canadian Archives)

Extract

To Canadians, and perhaps to English people as well, it will come as a surprise to learn that in the sixteenth century an Emperor of Germany laid claim not only to Canada, but also to the region now embraced within the borders of the United States. The basis of the claim was a bull issued by Pope Alexander VI in 1493.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1917

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