biography
pronunciation:
[hern]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1745–92)
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| biography:
| Explorer of N Canada, born in London, UK. He served in the Royal Navy, then joined the Hudson's Bay Company, who sent him to Fort Prince of Wales (Churchill) in 1769. He became the first European to travel overland by canoe and sled to the Arctic Ocean by following the Coppermine R north of the Great Slave Lake (1770). In 1774 he set up the first interior trading post for the company at Cumberland House, then became governor of Fort Prince of Wales. He was taken prisoner by the French in 1782, and taken to France, where he was encouraged to publish an account of his travels. Released in 1783, he returned to Canada, but ill health forced him to return to England in 1787. |
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