Samuel Hearne

English explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist

1745 CE to 1792 CE

Samuel Hearne (February 1745, London - November 1792, London) is an British explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist.

He is the first European to make an overland excursion across northern Canada to the Arctic Ocean, actually Coronation Gulf, via the Coppermine River.

In 1774, Hearne builds Cumberland House for the Hudson’s Bay Company, its first interior trading post and the first permanent settlement in present Saskatchewan.

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