While this web exhibit has focused the bulk of its attention on the narrative of Franklin’s journey and its geographic discoveries, the expedition’s ethnographic and …
Cherish Springer, an illustrator specializing in nautical themes and storytelling from Boston, Massachusetts, has focused on the search for the Northwest Passage in her most …
Rudy Wiebe won the 1994 Governor General’s Award for the complex and compelling account of the first Overland Expedition. Perhaps the only novel length treatment …
Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage is a recently published omnibus narrative of all the major European Arctic explorers, from Martin Frobisher …
Many people over the last two centuries have recreated parts of Franklin’s journey. The Coppermine in particular has been a popular destination due to its …
Over the years, residents of the Northwest Territories have reenacted the fateful meeting of Akaitcho and Lieutenant Franklin at Old Fort Providence in August 1820. …
Throughout the first Overland Expedition, Franklin and his fellow officers could be found reading various religious tracts to pass the time and keep their spirits …
Unbeknownst to Franklin, his party set sail in 1819 at the height of the brutal corporate war between the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) and the …
Every Canadian child is introduced to voyageur songs at some point in their education. The rhythmic and repetitive “Alouette, gentille alouette” that was well suited …
On September 2, 2014, Parks Canada announced that it had definitively found one of the Franklin expedition ships in Wilmot and Crampton Bay, far south …
Mary Shelley, born this day in 1797, was the same age as George Back and Robert Hood. She began writing Frankenstein at the age of …
My instructions, in substance, informed me that the main object of the Expedition was that of determining the latitudes and longitudes of the Northern Coast …
Launched in 1793, the HBC ship Prince of Wales ferried Franklin and his party from Gravesend, England to York Factory on Hudson’s Bay in 1819. …
On August 20, 1820, at the recommendation of Akaitcho and his fellow hunters, the Franklin party set up their advanced camp on Winter river between …
In recent years, the Record Office in Derbyshire, England has been cataloguing a treasure trove of Franklin letters. Of particular interest have been the correspondence …
In the early hours of August 3, 1820, Franklin’s party set out from (Old) Fort Providence for the Yellowknife River on their way to the …
Two hundred years ago this week, Royal Navy veteran Captain John Franklin arrived at Old Fort Providence at the base of Yellowknife Bay on Great …
