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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.