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November 1792
Samuel Hearne was born in London,England in 1745. When he was three, his father passed away and his mother moved Samuel and his sister to a village called Beaminster. This few hundred miles travel was the beginning of his future adventure.
Hearne spent many years of his life traveling, taking journeys, adventuring, and most of all exploring. In 1787 Hearne retired and returned to England. He died in London, England November, 1792.
After two false starts Hearne left on December 7, 1770, accompanied by Matonabbee, an Indian guide. He reached the Copper mine River on July 14, 1771, and three days later he reached the Ocean. In his journal he wrote, “On my arrival there I was not a little surprised to find the river differ so much from the description which the Indians had given of it...for instead of being so large as to be navigable for shipping...it was at that part scarcely navigable for an Indian canoe....” He summarized the results of his venture as follows: “Though my discoveries are not likely to prove of any material advantage to the Nation at large, or indeed to the Hudson’s Bay Company, yet I have the pleasure to think that I have fully complied with the orders of my masters.”
Hearne followed the shallow river to the Arctic Ocean, realizing that it was useless as a trade route. Furthermore, an intensive search yielded only a single lump of copper.
In 1775 Hearne was named Governor of Fort Prince of Wales. On August 8, 1782 French warships engaged in the American revolution demanded the surrender of the Fort. Hearne complied, and was taken to France as a prisoner. A year later he was released and returned to Canada. In 1787 he retired to England and died there in 1792. His journal , A Journey from Fort Prince of Wales in Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean, and his map were published in the same year.
When Hearne was 11 he had joined the Royal Navy as a captain's servant. He left at the year 1763. Three years he started working for the Hudson's Bay Company, for fur trading.
In 1774 Hearne opened Cumberland House.
The Cumberland House was the first Hudson's
Bay Company's inland trading post. It was not directly on the shore of the Hudson bay. In 1787 Hearne retired and returned to England.
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As today till I was small I was an really an adventurous person, an attribute an explorer has. Another attribute that makes me an explorer is goals, i have tons of goals to accomplish that maybe an explorer thing to do.