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Samuel Hearne

Samuel Hearne, (1745 – November 1792), was born in London, England and did extensive exploration of northern North America. Year 1745 ( MDCCXLV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1792 ( MDCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

In 1756, he entered the navy, and was some time with Lord Hood; at the end of the Seven Years' War (1763), he took service with the Hudson's Bay Company. For other related uses see Admiral Hood Samuel Hood 1st Viscount Hood ( 12 December 1724 &ndash 27 January The Seven Years' War (1756&ndash1763 involved all of the major European powers of the period causing 900000 to 1400000 deaths In 1768, he examined portions of the Hudson Bay coasts with a view to improving the cod fishery, and from 1769 to 1772, he was employed in north-western discovery, searching especially for certain copper mines described by Indians.

His first attempt (from 6 November 1769) failed through the desertion of his Indians; his second (from 23 February 1770) through the breaking of his quadrant; but in his third (December 1770 to June 1772) he was successful, not only discovering the copper of the Coppermine River basin, but tracing this river to the Arctic Ocean. Events 355 - Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with Year 1769 ( MDCCLXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable Year 1770 ( MDCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Friday Copper (ˈkɒpɚ is a Chemical element with the symbol Cu (cuprum and Atomic number 29 Coppermine River ( is a river in the North Slave and Kitikmeot regions of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada. The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major In so doing, he established there was no northwest passage through the continent at lower latitudes. On July 17, 1771, Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, travelling as his guide on his Arctic overland journey, massacred a group of unsuspecting Inuit; this would be known as the Massacre at Bloody Falls. Events 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians Year 1771 ( MDCCLXXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a The Chipewyan ( Denésoliné or Dënesųłiné) are a Dene Aboriginal people in Canada, whose ancestors were the Taltheilei Matonabbee (c 1737-1782 was a Chipewyan hunter and leader After his father died Matonabbee spent some time living at Fort Prince of Wales where he learned to speak Inuit (plural the singular Inuk, means "man" or "person" is a general term for a group of culturally similar Indigenous peoples inhabiting The Massacre at Bloody Falls was an incident that took place during Samuel Hearne 's exploration of the Coppermine River on July 17 1771

Hearne reappeared at Fort Prince of Wales on 30 June 1772. For other uses of the name "Prince of Wales" see Prince of Wales (disambiguation. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper Year 1772 ( MDCCLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a He established the second inland trading post for the Hudson's Bay Company in 1774 at Cumberland House (the first being Henley House, established in 1743, 200 km up the Albany River). Cumberland House was a mansion on the south side of Pall Mall in London, England. Becoming governor of Fort Prince of Wales in 1775, he was taken prisoner by the French under La Pérouse in 1782. Jean François de Galaup comte de La Pérouse (23 August 1741&ndash1788? was a French Navy officer and Explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania. He returned to England in 1787 where he died in 1792 of dropsy, eighteenth century medicine's description of the symptoms of liver or kidney failure. Oedema (or Edema in American English formerly known as dropsy or hydropsy, is the increase of Interstitial fluid in any organ &mdash swelling

He is the author of A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean, published in 1795, three years after his death.

He is mentioned by Charles Darwin in the sixth chapter of The Origin of Species. Charles Robert Darwin (February 12 1809 &ndash April 19 1882 was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all Species of life Charles Darwin 's On the Origin of Species (published 24 November 1859) is a seminal work in Scientific literature and arguably the

William Wales, who had been the astronomer with Captain Cook on his second voyage and was, from 1775 to 1798 a teacher at Christ's Hospital, assisted Hearne to write and publish his book. Wales meet Hearne at Hudson Bay while he was there during 1768-1769 to observe the Transit of Venus. One of Wales's pupils, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, made a brief notebook entry where he mentioned Hearne's book.

There is a school that was built and named after him in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. Inuvik, (place of man is a town in the Northwest Territories of Canada and is the administrative centre for the Inuvik Region. The Northwest Territories (ˌnɔrθˌwɛstˈtɛrɨtɔriz ( NWT or NT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is a territory A school in Toronto, Ontario was also built in his name in 1973. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec

You can see his name, carved in stone near Fort Prince of Wales, north of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

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Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

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