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Franklinʼs Overland Expeditions
Commemorating the 200th anniversary of Franklinʼs historic overland journey to the shores of the polar sea
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Month: May 2021

Modern Adventures

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Many people over the last two centuries have recreated parts of Franklin’s journey. The Coppermine in particular has been a…

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Dread Winter

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The unusual earliness of this winter became manifest to us from the state of things at this spot. Last year…

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Fort Enterprise Days

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As it may be interesting to the reader to know how we passed our time at this season of the…

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Sad End of Augustus

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The remains of Augustus also had been discovered not far from the Rivière à Jean. It appeared that the gallant…

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Meeting Greenstockings Again

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In the midst of one of these groups was my old acquaintance and Indian belle, who will be remembered by…

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Shoddy Workmanship

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This day one of the new trading guns, which we had recently received from Fort Chipewyan, burst in the hands…

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An Act of Pity

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One day a gentleman, long resident in this country, espied five young beavers sporting in the water, leaping upon the…

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A Grim Reunion

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We came in sight of the Fort at dusk, and it is impossible to describe our sensations, when on attaining…

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Indian Fairies

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On the morning of the 6th we embarked, and descended a series of rapids, having twice unloaded the canoes where…

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Belief and Unbelief

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Of their notions of a Deity, or future state, we never could obtain any satisfactory account; they were unwilling, perhaps,…

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