VISIONS OF THE NORTH

Photo courtesy of and © 2019 Derbyshire Record Office Every so often, a discovery is made in the archives that completely upturns o...

Graves at Beechey; photo by Allen Young (courtesy of Doug Wamsley) In the quest to understand the history of the graves of Franklin...

We often hear about the first discovery of the graves of Franklin's men at Beechey Island -- but not, before now, have we had a vivid...

The Franklin expedition graves on Beechey Island are probably one of the best-known and most often visited sites in the Canadian Arctic, ...

Of all the 19th-century Americans who spent a significant part of their lives searching for traces of the Franklin Expedition, Frederick...

Photo courtesy Mystic Seaport Museum; key at bottom of post I'm delighted to be able to announce that our wonderful hosts for ...

Photo courtesy Peter Carney One of the highlights of our time at the "Franklin Lost and Found" event at Mystic took place a...

Memorial to Cudlargo (and others) in Groton Not a great deal is known about the Inuk known as "Cudlargo," whose brief moment ...

At the grave of Hannah ("Tookoolito") It was truly a memorable gathering; for a day, the geographical center of gravity of th...

Keynote speaker David C. Woodman In what will be the most significant gathering in many years of those who have searched for, researche...

Some time ago on this blog, I gave the evidence that Emil Bessels had a deeper potential motive to poison the Arctic explorer Charles Fra...