One day a gentleman, long resident in this country, espied five young beavers sporting in the water, leaping upon the…
We came in sight of the Fort at dusk, and it is impossible to describe our sensations, when on attaining…
On the morning of the 6th we embarked, and descended a series of rapids, having twice unloaded the canoes where…
Of their notions of a Deity, or future state, we never could obtain any satisfactory account; they were unwilling, perhaps,…
Over the years, residents of the Northwest Territories have reenacted the fateful meeting of Akaitcho and Lieutenant Franklin at Old…
Throughout the first Overland Expedition, Franklin and his fellow officers could be found reading various religious tracts to pass the…
Unbeknownst to Franklin, his party set sail in 1819 at the height of the brutal corporate war between the Hudson’s…
Every Canadian child is introduced to voyageur songs at some point in their education. The rhythmic and repetitive “Alouette, gentille…
On September 2, 2014, Parks Canada announced that it had definitively found one of the Franklin expedition ships in Wilmot…
Mary Shelley, born this day in 1797, was the same age as George Back and Robert Hood. She began writing…