'THE CONQUEST OF THE GREAT NORTH-WEST"
"LORDS OF THE NORTH', The European history of this area starts with the discovery of Hudson Bay in 1610. The area was recognized as important in the fur trade and of potential importance for other discoveries. The fort is built in a European "star" shape.{{Original fort}}
This fort began as a log fort built in 1717 by (: James Knight :) of the Hudson's Bay Company and was originally called the "Churchill River Post". In 1719, the post was renamed Prince of Wales Fort, but is more commonly known today as Fort Prince of Wales. It was located on the west bank of the Churchill river to protect and control the Hudson's Bay Company's interests in the fur trade. {{Construction}},, Construction on the fort, a structure still standing today, was started in 1731 near what was then called Eskimo Point,It has forty-two cannons mounted on the walls with a battery across..,From: Samuel Hearne, A Journey from Prince of Wales’ Fort in Hudson’s Bay, to the Northern Ocean in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 and 1772 London Strahan and Cadell, 1795).Hearne was sent to Saskatchewan to Fort Cumberland, the second inland trading post for Hudson's Bay Company in 1774 (the first being Henley House, established in 1743,up( Albany River). Having learned to live off the land, he took minimal provisions for the eight Europeans and two Home Guard Crees who accompanied him.After consulting some local chiefs, Hearne chose a strategic site on Pine Island Lake in Saskatchewan . The site was linked to both the Saskatchewan River trade route and the Churchill river system.{{-Legacy-}} He became governor of Fort Prince of Wales on 22 January 1776. On 8 August 1782 Hearne and his complement of 38 civilians were confronted by a French force under the comte de La Pérouse composed of three ships, including one of 74 guns, and 290 soldiers.

How to Print from iPhone to Wireless Printer As a veteran Hearne recognized hopeless odds and surrendered without a shot. Hearne and some of the other prisoners were allowed to sail back to England from Hudson Strait in a sloop & Hearne returned the next year but found trade had deteriorated:The Indian population had been decimated by smallpox and starvation due to the lack of normal hunting supplies of powder and shot. {{Matonabbee}} had committed a moved and the rest of Churchill’s leading Indians had moved to other posts. Hearne's health began to fail and he delivered up command at Churchill on 16 August 1787 and returned to England In the last decade of his life he used his experiences on the barrens, on the Northern coast, and in the interior to help naturalists His friend William Wales was a teacher he assisted Hearne to write A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean. This was published in 1795, three years after Hearne's death of dropsy in November 1792 at the age of 47.Samuel Hearne/James Knight some of the inspirations for the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.