VISIONS OF THE NORTH

One of the most remarkable pieces of Inuit testimony was that given the Charles Francis Hall by a native in Pelly Bay whose name Hall trans...

Ron Carlson has just posted a very thoughtful item on the possible reasons for the abandonment of the boat later discovered by M'Clint...

I wanted to let everyone who's been following this blog over the years know why posts have been a bit less frequent of late, and why I...

The story is the stuff of old chivalric romances: in gratitude for helping him and his companions survive the winter, an officer of the Fran...

Who was "Aglooka"? There's been a great deal of chat about this eternal question over on the Facebook page on the Franklin E...

I wanted to put up a link to a news account of the Franklin story and modern interest in the same, written by Kate Dailey for the BBC's ...

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...