In the autumn of 1833, as George Back’s party ascended the Thlew-ee-choh (Back River), they passed a conical rock rising…
Dëne Dédliné Yatıé is a dialect of Chipewyan closest to that spoken by the Tetsǫ́t’ıné (Yellowknives) of Akaitcho’s time. It…
While this web exhibit has focused the bulk of its attention on the narrative of Franklin’s journey and its geographic…
Cherish Springer, an illustrator specializing in nautical themes and storytelling from Boston, Massachusetts, has focused on the search for the…
Rudy Wiebe won the 1994 Governor General’s Award for the complex and compelling account of the first Overland Expedition. Perhaps…
Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage is a recently published omnibus narrative of all the major European…
Many people over the last two centuries have recreated parts of Franklin’s journey. The Coppermine in particular has been a…
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…