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A journey from Prince of Wales's fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772
Macmillan Co. of Canada • Toronto • Published In 1958 • Pages:
By: Hearne, Samuel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In the late eighteenth century Samuel Hearne was commissioned by the Hudson's Bay Company to seek the source of copper ore believed to have originated in the Copper River area of northern Canada, now within the territory of Nunavut (1999). He was also requested to establish peaceful relations with the Northern Indian (Chipeweyan) groups that he met along the way and to inquire of them if they knew of any northwest sea route across northern Canada (presumably to remove ore deposits by ship if they were discovered). This document describes in detail Hearne's two expeditions to carry out this task. His first expedition ended in failure primarily because of the incompetance of his Indian guide Chawchihahaw. This expedition started from Prince of Wales's Fort near Churchill, Manitoba, then to the Dubawnt, Yathkyed Lake region of the Nunavut territory, and back to Churchill. The second expedition, under the more competent guide Matonabbee, proceeded from Prince of Wales's Fort, across a chain of lakes in the southern part of the Northwest Territories, to a point east of Great Slave Lake, and then north to the Copper River area. His return trip retraced his original route to the Copper River area, but this time, heading south, Hearne crossed a chain of islands across Great Slave Lake before travelilng east to Churchill. (Hearne's map of his journey is missing from the text copy used here, but the reader may find copies of this map in other editions of this work). Although much of the text deals with routine details of the journey itself (e.g., camping, routes taken, etc.), the author often provides aside discussions on various aspects of native ethnography. This is further supplemented in chapter ix by additional ethnographic data on the Northern or Chipewyan Indians. Chapter x presents an extensive listing of the native fauna and flora found in the Hudson's Bay region.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Practical preparations in conducting fieldwork
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- Flora
- Life history materials
- Hunting and trapping
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chipewyans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Traveler
- Explorer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1769-1772
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1769-1772
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Manitoba, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Samuel Hearne ; edited with an introd. by Richard Glover
- maps for this edition were not available
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 59003217
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians