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Samuel Hearne

Samuel Hearne
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Samuel Hearne (February 1745 – November 1792) was an English explorer, fur-trader, writer and naturalist. He was the first European to make an overland excursion across northern Canada to the Arctic Ocean, specifically to Coronation Gulf, via the Coppermine River. In 1774, Hearne built Cumberland House for the Hudson's Bay Company, its second interior trading post after Henley House and the first permanent settlement in present Saskatchewan.

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Expedition accounts often put one name on the cover. Read a little further and you find the people who made travel possible: interpreters who negotiated for horses, navigators who already knew the...
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