A new DNA analysis has identified the remains of Captain James Fitzjames, a Royal Navy officer who disappeared on a doomed ...

In 1881, the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition set out for the far North to spend two years recording scientific data. Sergeant George Rice was the official photographer on the team, and his images ...

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 ...

The Greely Expedition crew. National Archives. This group photo of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition team was taken in 1881 before departure for the Arctic to gather scientific data. Led by ...

A wool mitten that survived in the frigid Arctic water and a hair brush with errant strands are two of the hundreds of artifacts unearthed by Parks Canada archaeologists—each of them a clue in a ...

Three summers ago, divers found the first wreck of the Franklin Expedition. Using state-of-the-art technology, they’re now piecing together what led to the tragedy In the murkiness shrouding the ...

Known as "the man who ate his boots" after being forced to eat the leather parts of clothes when near starvationA pair of snow shoes used by Captain John Franklin (1786-1847) on his expedition to ...

Known as "the man who ate his boots" after being forced to eat the leather parts of clothes when near starvationA pair of snow shoes used by Captain John Franklin (1786-1847) on his expedition to ...