VISIONS OF THE NORTH

With the discovery by Parks Canada's marine archaeologists of HMS "Erebus" in 2014, the burning question has been the locat...

Sometimes, the humblest objects of daily use tell a tale more eloquent, more rich and complex, than anything we could gain from written r...

There's been a spate of reporting -- much of it plagued with inaccuracies -- about the ownership and disposition of the relics of Sir...

By Tabercil - Own work , under license via CC BY-SA 3.0 One measure of the influence of a man might be considered to be how many othe...

Makeshift crampons for walking on hard snow and ice; found at NgLj-2 in 1993 As part of my ongoing series on those who have searched fo...

Robert Cundy (L) and Gordon Dean (R); courtesy of the Sunderland Echo One of the more active armchair Franklin enthusiasts of his day, ...

Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2016 t's widely-known that the "Resolute Desk," currently being...

As a fact-checker, one of the most common things I've had to check in articles about the Franklin expedition are numbers. 128 men? Ye...

One could say that he was the first of the "modern" era of Franklin searchers, but Lachlan Taylor Burwash was at the same time ...

Image via Wikimedia Commons In my upcoming book Finding Franklin , I put it this way: "There’s every possibility that the next vit...

Few men in northern service were as rugged and hardy as Lorenz Alexander Learmonth. Like Dr John Rae before him, he was an Orkneyman, and...