Barren Grounds
The region of northern Canada, lying between the
Mackenzie River and Hudson Bay, and from the northern timber-line to
the Arctic. First visited by Samuel Hearne in 1770-1772. Late explorers
who traversed portions of the country are Franklin, in 1821; Back, in
1833; Dease and Simpson, in 1839; Richardson in 1848; and Anderson in
1855. Within more recent years, Warburton Pike, J. B. Tyrrell, J. W.
Tyrrell, D. T. Hanbury and Caspar Whitney have explored parts of the
Barren Grounds. =Bib.=: Hearne, Journey to the Northern Ocean;
Franklin, Narrative; Back, Arctic Land Expedition; Simpson, North
Coasts of America; Richardson, Arctic Searching Expedition; Anderson,
Descent of Great Fish River, in Royal Geog. Soc. Journal, 1856 and
1857; Pike, Barren Grounds; Tyrrell, Across the Sub-Arctics;
Hanbury, Northland of Canada; Whitney, On Snowshoes to the Barren
Grounds.