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    Samuel Hearne (February 1745 – November 1792) was an English explorer, fur-trader, author and naturalist. He was the first European to make an overland...
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  • employee Samuel Hearne's exploration of the Coppermine River for copper deposits near modern-day Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada on 17 July 1771. Hearne's original...
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    named for the copper ores which are located along the river, by Samuel Hearne in 1771. Hearne found only one lump of copper and commercial mining was not...
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    for Hudson's Bay Company. Samuel Hearne (1745–92) was an English explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist. In 1774, Hearne built Cumberland House for...
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    Bloody Falls: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacre a group of unsuspecting Inuit...
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  • Discovery. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780747511854. Hearne, S. (2007). The Adventures of Samuel Hearne. Victoria: Horsdal & Schubart. ISBN 9781894898607...
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    Ross's geese, under the name "horned wavey", was given by explorer Samuel Hearne eighty years before John Cassin named it after Ross. Ross's goose have...
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    of the first printed uses of the French word Esquimaux comes from Samuel Hearne's A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern...
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    John Byron Governor of St. John's Island: Walter Patterson December – Samuel Hearne departs on his third voyage of discovery. The city of Saint-Eustache...
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  • about the North of present-day Canada, including Martin Frobisher and Samuel Hearne. Norumbega El Dorado Blond Eskimos Miller, David W. (2011). The Forced...
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    European explorer Samuel Hearne traveled with Chipewyan Dene in 1771 and recorded their views on the ed-thin ('caribou'). According to Hearne, the Dene people...
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    1st Baron Shuldham Governor of St. John's Island: Walter Patterson Samuel Hearne explores Coppermine River to Arctic Ocean. HBC Mathey Cocking, to Blackfeet...
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    by only 39 (non-military) men at the time, and the fort's governor, Samuel Hearne, recognised the numerical and military imbalance and surrendered without...
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    under Samuel Hearne, were greatly outnumbered and, in any event, were not soldiers, they surrendered without firing a shot. The leaders agreed Hearne would...
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    follows in the footsteps of pioneers who opened up Arctic Canada, such as Samuel Hearne, John Rae and David Thompson. Survival with Ray Mears (ITV, Spring 2010...
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    a Hudson's Bay Company post at Cumberland House, founded in 1774 by Samuel Hearne. The southern part of the province was part of Spanish Louisiana from...
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  • Wales Fort where he learned to speak English. He acted as a guide for Samuel Hearne during his exploration from 1770 to 1772, together they travelled more...
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    Retrieved September 17, 2015. Tyrrell, Joseph (1934). Journals of Samuel Hearne and Philip Turnor between the Years 1774 and 1792. Toronto: Champlain...
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    fortress that was occupied by 39 British fur traders. Its governor, Samuel Hearne, surrendered the fort without firing a shot when the size of the French...
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    naturalist and author Samuel Hearne. Hearne is considered by some to have been the inspiration for the tragic figure in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The...
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    explorers of this region included James Knight, Christopher Middleton, Samuel Hearne, James Cook, Alexander MacKenzie and George Vancouver. By 1800 their...
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    mammals in Canada hearken back to the 1795 northern explorations of Samuel Hearne, whose account is considered surprisingly accurate. The first seminal...
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    Saskatchewanian portions of Lake Athabasca and Reindeer Lake are both larger. Samuel Hearne learned of the lake in 1770 and David Thompson noted in 1796 the dual...
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    Retrieved September 25, 2021. Hearne, Samuel (2007). A Journey to the Northern Ocean: The Adventures of Samuel Hearne. Classics West. Victoria, British...
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    Joseph Frobisher, set up a temporary post on Cumberland Lake in 1772. Samuel Hearne established the permanent HBC post in 1774. It is sometimes said to...
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    success, before returning to England. In 1772, the English fur trader Samuel Hearne travelled overland northwest from Hudson Bay to the Arctic Ocean, thereby...
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  • Inuit by Matonabbee and his accompanying party of Dene, witnessed by Samuel Hearne Chilcotin War April 30, 1864 Bute Inlet, British Columbia 19 Firearms...
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    dovetailed corners. Mowat, knowing that only one other European explorer, Samuel Hearne, had been in this region previously (in 1770), speculated that the monument...
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  • Cairn". Retrieved April 16, 2014. "Samuel Hearne - The Canadian Encyclopedia". Retrieved May 17, 2014. "Samuel Hearne and the Upper Track Fur Trade Route"...
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    (b. 1710) John Smeaton, English civil engineer (b. 1724) November – Samuel Hearne, English explorer, fur-trader, author and naturalist (b. 1745) December...
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