Peel Prairie Provinces Website has moved! This site is no longer being maintained and will be retired over the next year. Please visit https://library.ualberta.ca/peel to access this content.

Author Bio

41: journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the northern ocean Undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772 A . 1795.
Hearne, Samuel (1745-1792.)
1745-1792. Born in England; entered Royal Navy, then HBC, c.1765; fur trader and explorer; built Cumberland House, the first permanent settlement in the future province of Saskatchewan, 1774; returned to England, 1787 (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography).