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Kennedy, Victor. "An Exploration of Canadian Identity in Recent Literary Narratives of the Franklin Expeditions." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 3, no. 1-2 (June 20, 2006): 193–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.3.1-2.193-200.

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Sir John Franklin’s three expeditions to the high Arctic in 1819, 1825, and 1845 have become the stuff of Canadian legend, enshrined in history books, songs, short stories, novels, and web sites. Franklin set out in 1845 to discover the Northwest Passage with the most advanced technology the British Empire could muster, and disappeared forever. Many rescue explorations found only scant evidence of the Expedition, and the mystery was finally solved only recently. This paper will explore four recent fictional works on Franklin’s expeditions, Stan Rogers’ song “Northwest Passage”, Margaret Atwood’s short story “The Age of Lead”, Rudy Wiebe’s A Discovery of Strangers, and John Wilson’s North with Franklin: the Lost Journals of James Fitzjames, to see how Franklin’s ghost has haunted the hopes and values of nineteenth-century, as well as modern, Canada.

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Wamsley, Douglas, and William Barr. "Early photographers of the Arctic." Polar Record 32, no. 183 (October 1996): 295–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400067528.

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ABSTRACTBy the early 1840s photographers were travelling widely to obtain photographic images of remote and interesting areas. Attempts at photography in the Arctic lagged slightly at the start, but these attempts were no less determined than elsewhere, despite the additional problems that the Arctic environment presented. The first Arctic expedition on which photographic equipment is believed to have been taken was Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition of 1845–1848. However, the first Arctic expedition from which photographic images have survived was Sir Edward Belcher's expedition (1852–1854) in search of the missing Franklin expedition; these were calotypes taken by Dr William Domville of HMS Resolute in West Greenland in the spring of 1852, and by Captain Francis Leopold McClintock of HMS Intrepid at Beechey Island in August 1854. This article examines all the expeditions that are believed to have attempted photography in the Arctic from the Franklin expedition to the British Arctic Expedition of 1875–1876, in terms of their equipment, problems, and degree of success. During this period, Arctic expeditions were sufficiently innovative to utilize the latest available technology, and, in many cases, successful results were achieved under difficult circumstances. The results of these early efforts at photography in the Arctic provide an extremely valuable record of the exploration vessels, crews, and equipment, and of Greenlanders and Greenland settlements.

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Cruwys, Liz. "Henry Grinnell and the American Franklin searches." Polar Record 26, no. 158 (July 1990): 211–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400011451.

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AbstractHenry Grinnell (1799–1874), a retired New York shipping magnate, maintained for 20 years a correspondence with Jane Franklin, wife of the British explorer Sir John Franklin whose ships Erebus and Terror were lost in the Arctic some time after 1845. Grinnell financed two United States expeditions and two searches by Charles Francis Hall to the Arctic to collect information on the fate of the Franklin expedition. Grinnell's letters, now held in the archives of the Scott Polar Research Institute, form the basis of this article.

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Høvik, Ingeborg. "Heroism and Imperialism in the Arctic: Edwin Landseer’s Man Proposes – God Disposes." Nordlit 12, no. 1 (February 1, 2008): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.1232.

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Edwin Landseer contributed the painting Man Proposes - God Disposes (Royal Holloway College, Egham), showing two polar bears amongst the remnants of a failed Arctic expedition, to the Royal Academy's annual exhibition of 1864. As contemporary nineteenth-century reviews of this exhibition show, the British public commonly associated Landseer's painting with the lost Arctic expedition of sir John Franklin, who had set out to find the Northwest Passage in 1845. Despite Landseer's gloomy representation of a present-day human disaster and, in effect, of British exploration in the Arctic, the painting became a public success upon its first showing. I will argue that a major reason why the painting became a success, was because Landseer's version of the Franklin expedition's fate offered a closure to the whole Franklin tragedy that corresponded to British nineteenth-century views on heroism and British-ness.

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Craciun, Adriana. "THE FRANKLIN RELICS IN THE ARCTIC ARCHIVE." Victorian Literature and Culture 42, no. 1 (February 19, 2014): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150313000235.

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In August 2013 the Canadian governmentlaunched its largest search for the ships, relics, and records of the John Franklin expedition, which disappeared with all 129 hands lost searching for the Northwest Passage in 1845. Canada's latest search was its fifth in six years, one of dozens of search expeditions launched since 1848, in a well-known story of imperial hubris elevated to an internationalcause célèbre. Recent work in nineteenth-century literary and visual culture has shown the significant role that Franklin played in the Victorian popular imagination of the Arctic (see Spufford, Potter, David, Hill, Cavell, Williams, Savours, MacLaren). In panoramas, stereographs, paintings, plays, music, lantern shows, exhibitions, and popular and elite printed texts, record numbers of Britons could enjoy at their leisure the Arctic sublime in which Franklin's men perished. Alongside this work on how Europeans represented Arctic peoples and places, we also have a growing body of Inuit oral histories describing their encounters with nineteenth-century Arctic explorers. Drawing on these traditional histories of British exploration, visual culture, and literary imagination, and on postcolonial, anthropological and indigenous accounts that shift our attention away from the Eurocentrism of exploration historiography, and toward the “hidden histories of exploration,” this essay uncovers an unexamined material dimension of these encounters – the “Franklin Relics” collected by voyagers searching for Franklin.

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Gross, Tom, and Russell S. Taichman. "A comparative analysis of the Su-pung-er and Bayne testimonies related to the Franklin expedition." Polar Record 53, no. 6 (October 26, 2017): 561–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247417000535.

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ABSTRACTDuring Charles Francis Hall's second Arctic expedition (1864–1869) to find survivors and/or documents of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition, two separate Inuit testimonies were recorded of a potential burial vault of a high-ranking officer. The first testimony was provided by a Boothia Inuk named Su-pung-er. The second testimony was documented by Captain Peter Bayne who, at the time, was employed by Hall. To date the vault has not been found. Recently, both the HMSErebusand HMSTerrorhave been located. The discovery of these vessels was made possible, in part, by Inuit testimony of encounters with and observations of the Franklin expedition. The findings of theErebusandTerrorhave significantly bolstered the view that the Inuit accurately reported their observations and interactions with the Franklin crew. The purpose of this paper is to publish in their entirety Hall's notes from conversations with Su-pung-er focused on the vaults and to compare these observations to those reported in the Bayne testimony. It is our hope that in so doing the final major archaeological site of the Franklin expedition may be located.

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Cruwys, Liz. "Edwin Jesse De Haven: the first US Arctic explorer." Polar Record 28, no. 166 (July 1992): 205–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400020660.

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ABSTRACTEdwin Jesse De Haven (1816–1865) led the first Grinnell expedition in search of the lost British explorer Sir John Franklin in 1850–1851. Since it was the ship's charismatic surgeon, Elisha Kent Kane, who wrote the popular account of the voyage, De Haven's achievements have generally been overlooked. De Haven joined the United States Navy when he was 13 and was master on the ill-fated Peacock during the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842) to the Antarctic under Charles Wilkes. He saw action in the Mexican War in 1848, and was serving under Matthew Fontaine Maury at the Naval Observatory when he was chosen to take command of the first United States Franklin search expedition. He retired from the navy at the age of 46 and died three years later.

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Loosmore, Brian. "John Rae (1813–93): Explorer of the Canadian Arctic, the great pedestrian." Journal of Medical Biography 17, no. 4 (November 2009): 206–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/jmb.2009.009062.

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Born and raised in the Orkney Islands, Dr John Rae joined the Hudson's Bay Company and rose to be Chief Factor. Unusually tough and intelligent, he explored much of northern Canada, mapping the north eastern shore and finding controversial evidence of the lost Franklin expedition of 1845. A talented botanist, geologist, anthropologist and cartographer, he was northern Canada's most distinguished explorer.

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Stone, Philip. "Robert McCormick and the circumstances of his Arctic fossil collection, 1852–1853." Archives of Natural History 47, no. 2 (October 2020): 286–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2020.0655.

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The Royal Navy surgeon Robert McCormick (1800–1890) took part in three mid-nineteenth century British Polar expeditions, two to the Arctic and one to the Antarctic. Of the two Arctic voyages, the first was to Spitsbergen (in today's Svalbard) in 1827; the second from 1852 to 1853, was one of the expeditions dispatched to search for the missing ships commanded by Sir John Franklin that had set out in 1845 to navigate a “Northwest Passage” through the islands of the Canadian Arctic. The Svalbard expedition was formative in developing McCormick's interest in the Polar regions, with the likely highlight of his career being his subsequent participation in the Antarctic expedition of 1839–1843 led by James Clark Ross. Throughout these expeditions, McCormick collected natural history specimens, principally in the fields of ornithology and geology. Many of the geological specimens he retained in a personal collection which passed to what is now the Natural History Museum, London, on his death in 1890. This collection includes rock specimens from Svalbard and Baffin Bay, and a substantial number of Silurian fossils (mostly brachiopods) from Beechey Island and Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic. The fossil collection was the largest of several assembled during the successive expeditions sent out in search of Franklin, but is one of those that has received no subsequent attention. That omission was largely due to McCormick's own scientific shortcomings and persisted despite his determined efforts to promote himself as a serious scientific naturalist and Arctic authority.

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Savours, Ann M. "The diary of Assistant Surgeon Henry Piers, HMS Investigator, 1850–54." Journal of The Royal Naval Medical Service 76, no. 1 (March 1990): 33–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jrnms-76-33.

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SummaryFrom the 16th to the mid 19th century, many voyages were made from England to discover a North West Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. The Investigator was one of some 40 vessels that searched for the lost North West Passage expedition of 1845–48 under the command of Sir John Franklin in HM Ships Erebus and Terror, which became beset among what are now known as the Canadian Arctic Islands. The “Investigators” found no trace of Franklin, but were the first to traverse the North West Passage, although their ship had to be abandoned in Mercy Bay on Banks Island after two winters there. The diary of Assistant Surgeon Henry Piers, from the manuscript collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, is here examined. Reference is also made to the narrative and report published by the senior surgeon of the Investigator, Dr Alexander Armstrong.

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Books on the topic "John Franklin Arctic Expedition (1845-1851)"

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Admiralty, Great Britain. Arctic expedition: Copy of further correspondence which has been transmitted to the Admiralty between Admiral Sir John Ross and the Danish Inspector-General, touching the fate of the expedition under Sir John Franklin. [London: HMSO, 2001.

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Admiralty, Great Britain. Arctic expedition: Return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 21 March 1848, for, copies of instructions to Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N., in reference to the Arctic Expedition of 1845; to any officer or officers appointed by the Admiralty on any expedition in search of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N., and, copies or extracts of any proceedings and correspondence of the Admiralty in reference to Arctic expeditions, from 1845 to the present time, together with copies of charts illustrating the same. [London: HMSO, 2001.

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Admiralty, Great Britain. Arctic expedition: Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 5 February 1850, for copies "of any reports or statements from the officers employed in the Arctic expeditions, or from any other persons, which have been laid before the lords commissioners of the Admiralty, in respect to the resumption of the search for Sir John Franklin's expedition" ... [London: HMSO, 2000.

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Admiralty, Great Britain. Arctic expeditions: Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 7 February 1851, for, "Copy or extracts from any correspondence or proceedings of the Board of Admiralty, in relation to the Arctic expeditions, including those more recently sent forth in resumption of the search for that under the command of Sir John Franklin ...". [London: HMSO, 2001.

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Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

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Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

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Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

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Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

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Sir John Franklin and the Arctic regions: With detailed notices of the expeditions in search of the missing vessels under Sir John Franklin. Buffalo: G.H. Derby, 1986.

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Kane, Elisha Kent. U. S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin: A Personal Narrative. University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, 2015.

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