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    The Coppermine expedition of 1819–1822 was a British overland undertaking to survey and chart the area from Hudson Bay to the north coast of Canada, eastwards...
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    The Coppermine River is a river in the North Slave and Kitikmeot regions of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada. It is 845 kilometres (525 mi)...
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    com/title/tt0100058/ The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (1957) ISBN 0-553-27928-9 Coppermine Journey (1958) ISBN 0-771-06690-2 The Grey Seas Under (1959) ISBN 1-58574-240-6...
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  • during Hudson's Bay Company employee Samuel Hearne's exploration of the Coppermine River for copper deposits near modern-day Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada on...
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    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...
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    1848 to 1851, Rae made three journeys along the Arctic coast. The first took him from the Mackenzie River to the Coppermine River, which had been done before...
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    opens. John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society Farley Mowat's Coppermine Journey: An Account of a Great Adventure Antonine Maillet's first novel Pointe-aux-Coques...
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    had preceded them by 34 days. Scott's party of five died on the return journey from the pole; some of their bodies, journals, and photographs were found...
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    to lead the Coppermine expedition overland from Hudson Bay to chart the north coast of Canada eastwards from the mouth of the Coppermine River. On his...
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    would hunt and guide for the expedition during its north-bound journey on the Coppermine River, and they would leave food supplies for Franklin's return...
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