Samuel Hearne's track: some obscurities clarified.

From: Arctic | Date: September 1, 1999| Author: Fuller, W.A. | Copyright information

W.A. FULLER(1)

(Received 26 January 1998; accepted in revised from 21 January 1999)

ABSTRACT. In 1770-72, Samuel Hearne walked from the present-day Churchill, Manitoba, to the lower Coppermine River and back in the company of a band of northern Indians (Chipewyans) and their leader, Matonabbee. Hearne's map is sketchy, to say the least; nevertheless, J.B. Tyrrell (1911) identified the main features along his route from Churchill to Wholdaia Lake. The key to t...

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