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and _Rebellion of 1837_; Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Upper Canadian Rebellion_; Lizars, _Humours of '37_; Fitz Gibbon, _A Veteran of 1812_; Robinson, _Sir John Beverley Robinson_; Ryerson, _Story of my Life_; Egerton and Grant, _Canadian Constitutional Development_; Durham, _Report_; _Lord Glenelg's Despatches to Sir F.B. Head_, London, 1839. =Hearne, Samuel= (1745-1792). Came to Fort Prince of Wales on the Hudson's Bay Company's ship _Prince Rupert_. Under instructions from the Company, and after two abortive attempts, set forth in December, 1770, on his memorable journey to the mouth of the Coppermine River, which he reached in July of the following year. Returning by way of Great Slave Lake, arrived at Fort Prince of Wales in June, 1772. Two years later sent to the Saskatchewan, where he built Cumberland House. On his return in 1775, appointed governor of Fort Prince of Wales, and still in charge when the fort was captured by La Perouse in 1782. Brief accounts of his journey published after his return from the Coppermine, and some of his statements severely criticized by Alexander Dalrymple. The complete account of the expedition did not appear until three years after his death. =Index=: =MS= Sent inland by Hudson's Bay Company, 3; discovers Coppermine River and Great Slave Lake, 3, 31; builds Cumberland House, 4; magnitude of his explorations, 31; his guide Matonabee, 32. =D= His expedition to Coppermine River made on behalf of Hudson's Bay Company, 51; his discoveries known to Alexander Mackenzie, 53. =Bib.=: Works: _Journey from Prince of Wales Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean_, etc., 1769-1772 (Lond., 1795). New ed., edited by J. B. Tyrrell, Champlain Soc., 1910; French trans. by M. Lallemant in 2 vols. (Paris, 1799). Also, abridged in Mavor's collection of _Voyages_, xxiv, 1-66. Brief accounts of Hearne and his explorations will be found in Bryce, _Hudson's Bay Company_; Willson, _Great Company_; Laut, _Pathfinders of the West_ and _Conquest of the Great North-West_; Burpee, _Search for the Western Sea_. =Heath, General William= (1737-1814). =Dr= Commissioner on American side for exchange of prisoners, 208. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog_. =Heathfield, George Augustus Eliott, first Baron= (1717-1790). Defender of Gibraltar. =Index=: =Hd= His marriage, 316. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._ =Heavysege, Charles= (1816-1876). Born in Liverpool, England. Came to Canada, 1853. Settled in Montreal, and engaged in his t
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