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Making a guest appearance in these pages is Harry Goodsir, surgeon, anatomist and naturalist; and friend and mentee of Edward Forbes. Forbes was a close friend of Harry’s older brother John, with w…

Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to explore the Northwest Passage left his ships stuck in the ice for almost two years, with sailors scattering across the frigid Arctic in search of help. No...

New research has identified four members of the doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage, including the owner of a paper-stuffed wallet that has long mystified historians

It set out from England in May, 1845, in search of the Northwest Passage and later perished in the Canadian Arctic

“Some very hard ground to heave”: DNA identification of Harry Peglar, Captain of the Foretop, HMS Terror - Volume 62

A response to the DNA identification of John Bridgens, William Orren, David Young, and Harry Peglar of the Franklin expedition.

Researchers have identified four more members of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition, one of whom was the subject of great debate lasting for more than a century. Anthropologists from the Faculty of A...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have identified the remains of four more crew members of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated expedition to find the Northwest Passage.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have identified the remains of four more crew members of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated expedition to find the Northwest Passage.