“Sir John Franklin died on June 11, 1847, and the total loss by deaths in the expedition has been to this date nine officers and 15 men…[We] start on tomorrow 26th for Backs Fish River,” the ...

"Sir John Franklin died on the 11th of June 1847 and the total loss by deaths in the Expedition has been to this date 9 ...

the story of Franklin’s expedition is one of cannibalism and ... s crew likely deserted their ships and headed off on a doomed death march, ignorant of the dangerous polar bears that traveled ...

Researchers in Canada have been exploring the wreck of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition ... and Canada on different occasions before his death at the age of 88.

It reveals the story about one of the largest manhunts in Canadian history: the search for the lost ships of the Franklin Expedition, an Arctic expedition that disappeared mysteriously more than 170 ...

None would survive. These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 129-man expedition to map the Northwest Passage all perished, many just a few miles from where they’d started—although the bodies ...