VISIONS OF THE NORTH

Some time ago, under the title " The Sword of a Great Officer ," I posted an image of the hilt of sword that had been presented...

Image courtesy of Doreen Larsen Riedel Even before he arrived on the shores of King William, he’d already been awarded the Gold Medal o...

I had originally planned to be posting on my blog this fall about the new finds from HMS "Erebus" that I'd hoped would be a...

One of the more remarkable finds of the earlier dives upon HMS "Erebus" was a wooden element, found near the stern (where the...

With the approach of the 2015 dive season, it won't be long before Ryan Harris, Marc-André Bernier, and the rest of the Parks Canada ...

Richard Finnie -- shown here on a search, in company of L.T. Burwash, of the northwestern coasts of King William Island in 1930 -- was no...

Anne Keenleyside, Margaret Bertulli, and Barry Ranford (w. camera), 1993 As I described in my last post, the bones brought back for stu...

Paddy Gibson and Inuit, Richardson Island, Coronation Gulf, Sept. 1930 We've heard a lot in the press lately about who deserves -- ...

After the jubilation so many of us who've followed, or been a part of, the search for Sir John Franklin's ships, felt at the 201...

At the conclusion of several seasons of conducting a gruelling magnetometer survey over the ice of Wilmot and Crompton Bay -- a search wh...

Since my post about Charles Francis Hall and the sculptress Vinnie Ream, I've been fortunate to be able to obtain a copy of the biogr...