Canadian
- Simon Fraser (1776-1862)
- Crossed the Rocky Mountains and traveled most of the way down the river that bears his name (1805-1807)
- Henry Yule Hind (1823-1908)
- Explored the Assiniboine, Qu'Appelle, South and North Saskatchewan, and Souris Rivers and Lakes Winnipeg and Winnipegosis (1858)
- Louis Joliet (1645-1700)
- With Jacques Marquette, explored the Great Lakes and first to chart the Mississippi River successfully as far south as the junction of the Arkansas River (1669)
- Pierre Gaultier de Varennes La Vérendrye (1685-1749)
- Explored Western Canada
- Made a trip on foot and on horseback to the area of the Black Hills in South Dakota (1742-1743)
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962)
- Part of an expedition to the Mackenzie River Delta (1906-1907)
- Conducted an ethnological survey of the central Arctic coast (1908-1912)
- Found land north of Prince Patrick Island and Axel Heiberg Island, and mapped large regions of the Arctic coastline (1913-1918)
- David Thompson (1770-1857)
- Mapped extensive areas of Western Canada, including the Columbia River (1789-1811)
