VISIONS OF THE NORTH

As historian Kenn Harper has noted on many occasions, the strong bonds of friendship that tied Charles Francis Hall’s Inuit guides and tr...

Not a man with long teeth The question of whether there may or may not be human remains aboard either HMS "Erebus" or "T...

In just a few days, on November 29th, I'll be delivering a lecture, " Making Marks: Officers' Crests and Sailors' Scratc...

The image at left, recently released by Parks Canada, is captioned "Anchors still in their sailing position on the port stern quarte...

Courtesy Royal Canadian Regiment Museum at Wolseley Barracks, London ON Although it was conduced by the famed Royal Canadian Regiment, ...

Approximate sites of Erebus and Terror With a dramatic announcement, British Defence Minister Sir Michael Fallon declared that Sir John...

"The death of Bellot" (with thanks to Andrés Paredes for this image) Among all the storied names of Arctic explorers from the...

The site of the winter encampment of the first major Royal Navy search for Sir John Franklin's expedition, Port Leopold possesses a s...

Scarcely a stone's throw from the much-better-known Franklin sites on Beechey Island, tucked away under the mighty shadow of Caswall...

Among the more storied spots that I was able to visit during my voyages this past August is surely Fort Ross, whose significance stretche...

The first time I visited Beechey Island was in April of 2004, as part of the filming of the 2005 NOVA episode "Arctic Passage,"...