Franklin’s missive is one of nearly 200 letters found in a sizable volume of correspondence from expedition participants gathered together and recently published under the title “May We Be ...

Franklin’s missive is one of nearly 200 letters found in a sizable volume of correspondence from expedition participants gathered together and recently published under the title “May We Be ...

For Franklin Expedition fanatics, Russell Potter is a household name. He’ll be one of the speakers at a symposium held Saturday, just before the final week of “Death in the Ice,” a major ...

Fitzjames and Franklin’s second-in-command, Captain Francis Crozier, signed the dispatch. Human remains from the expedition dot the western and northern coasts of King William Island.

The expedition set sail on May 19, 1845, and was last seen in July 1845 in Baffin Bay by the captains of two whaling ships. Historians have compiled a reasonably credible account of what happened ...

Piecing together puzzle of ill-fated Franklin expedition By Matthew Price Globe Correspondent,March 16, 2017, 10:00 p.m.

The prime minister’s staff recently swapped out the Franklin expedition relics from Centre Block 307-S. The weather-beaten food tins and bits of wood will be returned to their respective museums.

This is just the second member of the Franklin expedition to have been identified. In 2021, Stenton and his team identified the remains of John Gregory, chief engineer of HMS Erebus, from DNA ...

Rear Adm. Sir John Franklin led the Royal Navy's 1845 to 1848 expedition to navigate the Northwest Passage, a sea route connecting the northern Atlantic to the northern Pacific Ocean.

According to Delgado, the Franklin expedition was one of the best equipped and most experienced voyages to tackle the Northwest Passage in the mid-19th century. Finding a route across the top of ...

Engraving showing the end of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition, taken from a painting by W. Thomas Smith exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1896.