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A journey from Prince of Wales's fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772Book 1958 • Hearne, Samuel
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
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 als...Journey from Fort Prince Wales, in Hudson's Bay to the northern ocean, for the discovery of copper mines and a north-west passage, performed between the years 1769 and 1772, by Mr. Samuel Hearnebook chapter 1797 • Hearne, Samuel
Copper Inuit • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This book is of interest chiefly because Hearne was the first European to come in contact with the Copper Inuit. The encounter was brief but bloody as the Indians who accompanied Hearne suprised and ruthlessly massacred a party of Inuits....