Two years later, Samuel Hearne was given the task of retracing Matonabbee's route and returning with copper. The land was unknown and incredibly harsh; Hearne's voyage was a monumental task of ...

Samuel Hearne was the first white person to stand ... the site of a horrific slaughter of innocents. Hearne walked the route that I paddled, at a pace of 20 to 30 miles a day, in similar weather.

I haven't met anyone who isn t duly impressed by Dick Griffith s stoicism, self-reliance, and stamina. But I believe an 18th century explorer in Canada was much tougher than Griffith and ...

Samuel Hearne was the first European to reach the Arctic overland. Samuel Hearne became the first European to explore the Arctic, travelled overland, in 1771. (As portrayed by Art Kitching in ...

Host David McGuffin and RCGS Explorer-in-Residence Adam Shoalts reveal some of the compelling figures of the early fur trade in Canada: Henry Kelsey, Samuel Hearne, and the great Dene leader ...

Samuel Hearne is to Canada what Burke and Wills are to Australia, though in Hearne's case he survived his epic journey of exploration through Canada's north in the mid 18th century.

‘‘Ancient Mariner: The Arctic Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Inspired Coleridge's Masterpiece.'' By Ken McGoogan. Carroll & Graf. 333 Pages. $25. According to Ken McGoogan, 18th ...

SAMUEL Hearne certainly wasn't someone who shirked a challenge. He could have had a comfortable life as a rural vicar in his West Country home town of Beaminster, or followed his father into the ...