According to records kept shipmate George Best, Frosbisher thought he had found the fabled Northwest Passage. (As portrayed by : Ian Deakin in Canada: A People's History) He dreamt of finding the ...

Henry Hudson's ship 'The Discovery' became trapped in arctic ice as he searched for the Northwest Passage. (Digitally composited scene from Canada: A People's History) The remains of the loyal ...

Dead Reckoning is an outstanding 21st-century Canadian history that refutes myths ... century developments in the discovery of the Northwest Passage was not the bumbling Franklin expedition ...

In 2014 the Nunavik became the first cargo ship to go through the Northwest Passage without an icebreaking escort ship leading the way Climate change is increasingly opening up the Northwest ...

The only written record ever found of the disastrous Franklin Northwest Passage expedition of 1845-1848 was discovered in 1859. It was found in a stone cairn erected on the western shore of King ...

Ships on frontier-pushing missions through this Northwest Passage were crushed by moving ice or stranded for years at a time, subject to the perils of illness, scurvy, even cannibalism.

The pair attempted to be the first to have ever crossed the Northwest Passage, while self-propelled and in a single season. "As Adam and Matty documented their journey, they captured the raw ...