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Hearne, Samuel

A journey from Prince of Wales's fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772 / by Samuel Hearne.  New edition with introduction, notes, and illus. by J.B. Tyrrell. Toronto : The Champlain Society, 1911. xv, 437 pages, [6] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 fold ma

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Hearne, Samuel

A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 / by Samuel Hearne.  London : Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1795. xliv, 458 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.

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Ellis, Henry

A voyage to Hudson's-Bay by the Dobbs Galley and California in the years 1746 and 1747 for discovering a North West Passage : with an accurate survey of the coast and a short natural history of the country together with a fair view of the facts and ar / by Henry Ellis.  London : Printed for H. Whitridge, 1748. 336 pages

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To which is prefixed An Historical Account of the Attempts hitherto made for the finding a Passage that way to the East-Indies. Illustrated with proper cuts ...

Northwest Passage — Discovery and exploration
Hudson Bay — Discovery and exploration
Arctic regions — Discovery and exploration.

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Hakluyt, Richard

Divers voyages touching the discovery of America and the islands adjacent / collected and published by Richard Hakluyt ; edited, with notes and an introduction, by John Winter Jones.  London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1850. 171 pages : maps ; 22 cm.

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Original issued in series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references.

Jones, John Winter, 1805-1881.

Voyages and travels
America — Discovery and exploration
Northwest Passage.

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Parry, William Edward

Journal of the third voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage / by W.E. Parry.  London ; Paris : Cassell, 1892. 106 frames.

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Introd. signed: H.M. Original issued in series: Cassell's national library. In 1824 Parry started again on the third voyage, of which this volume contains his journal--Introd. Includes advertising matter.

Inuit — Canada
Northwest Passage.

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Franklin, John

Sir John Franklin's journals and correspondence : the second Arctic land expedition, 1825-1827 / edited with an introduction by Richard C. Davis.  Toronto : Champlain Society, 1998. lxxxi, 421, xxii pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations,

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James, Thomas

The dangerous voyage of Capt. Thomas James, in his intended discovery of a northwest passage into the south sea wherein the miseries endured, both going, wintering and returning ... to which is added, a map for sailing in those seas ...with an appendix co / by Thomas James.  The second edition, revised and corrected. London : Printed in 1633, and now Reprinted for O. Payne, 1740. 142 pages : map, port. ; 20 cm.

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Northwest Passage
Arctic regions — Discovery and exploration.

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Wallace, Hugh N

The Navy, the Company, and Richard King : British exploration in the Canadian Arctic, 1829-1860 / Hugh N. Wallace.  Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1980. xxix, 232 pages, [6] pages of plates : diagrs., facs

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Includes index.

Northwest Passage.

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Barrington, Daines

The possibility of approaching the North Pole asserted / by D. Barrington.  A new edition / London : Printed for T. and J. Allman, 1818. 258 pages

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Half title: On the possibility of approaching the North Pole.

Beaufoy, Mark, 1764-1827.

Northwest Passage
Arctic regions
North Pole.

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Burpee, Lawrence J.

The search for the western sea : the story of the exploration of north-western America / by Lawrence J. Burpee.  New and rev. ed. Toronto : Macmillan Company of Canada, 1935. 2 v. : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

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Miller, Gerard Fridrikh

Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the discoveries of the north west coast of America : to which is prefixed, a summary of the voyages made by the Russians on the frozen sea, in search of a north east passage : serving as an explanation of a map / translated from the High Dutch of S. i.e. G. Muller ; with the addition of three new maps by Thomas Jefferys.  London : Printed for T. Jefferys, 1761. 76 pages

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