VISIONS OF THE NORTH

According to a story today on the CBC's website, Rob Rondeau and his ProCom Diving Services are challenging the denial of an archaeologi...

(click here for the full article) According to several stories which have appeared on the CBC's website, Rob Rondeau is not looking for ...

I was saddened yesterday, on looking at the table of contents for the latest issue of Arctic , to come upon an obituary notice for Chauncey...

One of the more unusual categories for early sitters for the Daguerreian camera is monophotic , meaning persons for whom there exists only ...

Following up on an earlier post , since the area chosen for this year's summer search is where the first, crushed ship of Franklin's...

With the news that the private search for Franklin's ships will be the only one this summer, the practical question of where to look fo...

According to the CBC , this summer's search for Sir John Franklin's ships has been officially called off. Apparently, despite the ...

I just arrived back late last night from my lecture on Sir Edwin Landseer's "Man Proposes, God Disposes," currently on displa...

It's remarkable how little it turns out we sometimes know about things we thought we knew well. So, while the question over whether or n...

One of the iconic images of the Arctic Sublime, it was painted by an artist who had never travelled to the north, and whose best-known pain...

In my last posting, I gave some general background on the Daguerreotypes made of Franklin and his officers just before their sailing in May ...