VISIONS OF THE NORTH

Readers of this blog will be delighted, I am sure, to learn that I've just received a long and very informative letter from Dave Woodman...

In researching for this blog the manner in which the bones believed to be Irving's were returned, I was delighted to find that the littl...

Let's recalibrate our discussion here, and assume for the moment that it was John Irving in that grave. If so, I would say it's mos...

The descriptions of the site and nature of the grave supposed by Schwatka to be that of Lieutenant John Irving, and the stone vault found by...

Without a doubt, one of the most poignant discoveries of the American Franklin Searching Expedition led by Frederick Schwatka was that of th...

It's only been about a week and a half since a discussion here on this blog, where I suggested that someone ought to locate, open, and ...

So here we go again! The Canadian House of Commons has come out with a motion to rename the "Northwest Passage" the "Canadia...

The day after the Franklin memorial service in Greenwich this past October, a number of us met at Kensal Green Cemetery in London for a wal...

Among the slimmest, and most delightful items in my collection is this Australian chapbook, printed entirely in letterpress, and reproducing...

A major new digital initiative of the Library and Archives of Canada has recently been completed: the digital scanning of all the British A...

In my last posting, I mentioned another remarkable item in my collections, a small toy replica of one of Goldner's infamous red tins. ...