VISIONS OF THE NORTH

The news has begun to trickle out that this year, the final year of the three-year long Parks Canada search for the lost ships of Sir John ...

I was greatly saddened today to learn of the crash of the First Air Boeing 737 near Resolute, Nunavut earlier today. The plane, one of six ...

I've written here before about the mystery surrounding the library of books taken aboard HMS "Terror" and "Erebus" ...

Parks Canada recently concluded its new mission this year to photograph and gather information about the Franklin search ship HMS Investigat...

Every government has its bureaucracy, and to rail against them collectively would be absurd. All the same, for those of us who celebrated th...

It's that time of year again when -- despite what has been for the most part a more open, accessible, and timely release of materials fr...

Over the years, as readers may imagine, I've been in touch with all kinds of people who've had ideas about searching for traces of S...

Faithful readers of this blog will recall, perhaps, my posting from back in February about a previously unknown Japanese adventurer, Yusuke...

The Arctic has spurred the creativity of artists for centuries, marking as it does the border between the known and the unknown, the visibl...

To riff on an old American joke, it turns out that it may not be Grant in that tomb. According to a forensic facial reconstruction, the ske...

The statue of Sir John Franklin in Hobart, Tasmania, has doubtless seen its share of strange things, but those who visit in the next few wee...