VISIONS OF THE NORTH

I'd heard about it for years, how John Torrington -- the unfortunate leading stoker on HMS "Erebus" -- had found himself in th...

Jared Harris as Captain Francis Crozier Back in March of 2018, when viewers in North America turned on their televisions to see what "T...

It may be one of the most extraordinary relics of the Franklin expedition that's never before been seen: a brooch, containing in its inm...

William John Wills One of the most exciting things about editing the letters of the men of the Franklin expedition and their families is all...

You're about to embark on one of the greatest adventures in the history of exploration -- the search for the Northwest Passage under ...

Largo Kirk (photo by James Denham CC-by-SA ) On the occasion of Harry Goodsir's two hundred and first birthday, it seems fitting to reca...

 When Harry Goodsir, serving as Assistant Surgeon and Naturalist aboard  HMS "Erebus" under Sir John Franklin, arrived in Greenlan...

  Getting the Monument right in Jane Franklin's eyes had clearly proved something of a headache for Sophy Cracroft, as her journal entry...

This week, we present another guest post by Mary Williamson, who is Sir John Franklin's great-great-grand-niece and a skilled researcher...

Photo by Joseph Monteith Sometimes even the most significant discoveries happen by happy accident. Such was the case with a series of aerial...

Coronation Gulf, 2019 (author photo) Since Parks Canada first became involved with the search for Franklin's ship's in 2008, th...