VISIONS OF THE NORTH

On Monday, 17th January, the Victorian-era splendor of the Durning Library will host a talk by William Battersby on the life and career of ...

A few months ago, in one of my installments on Franklin Curiosities, I mentioned the small toy replica tins of Goldner's Patent Provisi...

Canada's Science and Technology Museum is hosting an exhibition, "Echoes in the Ice: History, Mystery, and Frozen Corpses," w...

News that the box unearthed from under the Gibson memorial in Gjoa Haven did not contain any Franklin records came as no surprise to those ...

After a good deal of jiggering around with the route-tracing page on Bear Grylls' site, I managed to get a close-up view of his journey ...

In a story first noted on William Battersby's blog , adventurer and television presenter "Bear" Grylls has claimed a new Frank...

This is a guest column written by Kenn Harper at the invitation of Russell Potter. Tomorrow Walter Porter, an Inuk in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, p...

Here's a curious story, which I've known about for over a year, and is finally going public: in the midst of the Inuit hamlet of Gjo...

As the Canadian Press put it in their article today, " Arctic Ship Searchers Come Up Cold this year ." It's not the news we h...

The history of Sir John Franklin on stage and screen is a lengthy one, and goes all the way back to Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens's...

[UPDATED AUG 29] As noted in a response to an earlier post, the CCGS Laurier's online track shows a route rather different than expect...