VISIONS OF THE NORTH

The news is out about newly-restored footage from a travelogue film made in 1919 at the behest of the Hudson's Bay Company, Romance of ...

In 1839, during the time that Sir John Franklin was serving as Governor of Van Diemen's Land, Lady Franklin bought 130 acres of land nea...

When the New York Times ran a blog post on its Dot Earth blog about the ballad " Lord Franklin ," they chose as an illustration a...

The first use of "Chimo" as a greeting is in Drage 1748, in Hudson Strait: "The Person in the Canoe... shewed a Piece of Whal...

The image is almost a cliché of nineteenth-century Arctic explorers' narratives: the Kabloonas approach the "Esquimaux" carefu...

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 ...