VISIONS OF THE NORTH

Many people have taken issue with the inscription on the Franklin statue in Waterloo Place, which awards Sir John and his men credit for ...

Recently, the question of in how Dr. John Rae's charting of the strait that bears his name contributed to the tracing of a Northwest ...

Peter Carney and others have brought up the question of the well-known "Black Men" story reported to Charles Francis Hall.  O...

So here we go again: Yet another Parks Canada search for the remains of Sir John Franklin's ships, the "Erebus" and "T...

The American artist  William Bradford  chartered annual excursions for photography and ice-painting nearly every year from 1861 to 1867. ...

When little Weesy Coppin's ghost was called upon by Anne and her surviving siblings to show the fate of Sir John Franklin, the vision...

I have posted before on the " Londonderry Vision " and Captain Coppin, but new interest in the subject -- along with some thoug...

The recent conference, held under the auspices of TIGHAR , on new evidence as to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, was packed with fas...

The career of Sir John Franklin inspired numerous poems both during and after his lifetime, ranging from the romantic (Swinburne's ...

The Franklin search ship HMS Breadalbane was caught or "nipped" by pack-ice and sank on Sunday 21 August, 1853; according t...

IN the spirit of Lady Franklin's Appeal to Lord Palmerston, I've just done something I've never tried before -- launch a pet...