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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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    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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    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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  • Discovery. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780747511854. Hearne, S. (2007). The Adventures of Samuel Hearne. Victoria: Horsdal & Schubart. ISBN 9781894898607...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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