A Marine Institute researcher lived an explorer’s dream over the summer, when he paddled through the Canadian Arctic. After ...

The two-month expedition, inspired by historic Viking journeys, visits Greenland and crosses the storied Northwest Passage ...

For one man to have conquered the Northwest Passage, the North Magnetic Pole ... and the Inuit can be violent—history tells you this. So he was in a state of total confusion.

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 ...

Of all the brave Britishers who for 400 years had given freely of their treasure, courage, and enterprise to dauntless but unsuccessful attempts to negotiate the Northwest Passage, none was braver ...

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 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 ...

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.