216 ACROSS THE SUB-ARCTICS OF CANADAS 
Royal Charter, which required that the country should 
be fortified. 
The building of the fort appears to have been carried | 
on for many years under the direction of the famous 
Samuel Hearne, already referred to as having traversed 
the Barren Lands to. the mouth of the Copper Mine | 
River. In a stone barrack within the Fort, Hearne \ 
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RUINS OF FORT PRINCE OF WALES. 
lived and carried on business for the Company for 
many years. 
The fortress was in the form of a square, with sides 
three hundred feet long; at the corners were bastions, 
and on top of the massive stone walls, twenty feet in 
height by thirty feet in thickness at the base, were 
mounted forty-two guns. With such a defence one 
