Samuel Hearne (1745-1792)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Speck, Gordon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1983
• Subjects: Biographies; Copper; Expeditions; Explorers; Hearne; Samuel; 1745-1792; History; Hudson's Bay Company; Natural history; Travels; Starvation; Churchill region; Manitoba; Coppermine River; N.W.T./Nunavut; Coronation Gulf region; Nunavut; Great Slave Lake; N.W.T; Hudson Bay region; Arctic; Hudson Bay; Greenland; Hudson; Coronation Gulf; Hearne Channel; Matonabbee Point; Chipewyan; Churchill; Churchill River; eskimo*; North West Passage
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65302

. Hearne was born in 1745 in London. He was an indifferent schoolboy and at the age of eleven was in the Royal Navy under the command of Admiral Samuel Hood. He saw action during the Seven Years War but left the Navy and, in 1766, became an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, which sent him t...