In the early 1770s England's Samuel Hearne became the first European to reach the Arctic Ocean overland from this bay
In 1774 Hearne built for the Hudson's Bay Company its first interior trading post
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Samuel Hearne had reached the Arctic Ocean from Fort Churchill in the early.