VISIONS OF THE NORTH

As readers of this blog may well imagine, it didn't take me long to plunge into further research on my ancestor, William Henry Brunt, a...

As someone who has spent the last 20 years researching the final Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin, I must admit it came as a bit of a ...

Among the more remarkable objects in the Hall Papers at the Smithsonian is a small printed form, one of an unknown number prepared by the wi...

Thanks to Dave Woodman for alerting us to an upcoming conference of the Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia, which feature...

The National Maritime Museum has long been the host of the largest collection of Franklin relics in the world. A few have been on permanent...

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...