HMS Erebus

• Coffee beans, pencils: Sailors’ lives revealed via Franklin expedition artifacts

  "You're down there and you remove things, uncover the sediments, and they slowly appear. To see this unfold before your eyes, it is quite the charge."

  Canada

  Feb 20, 2020
  
• Dark Poutine Podcast Recap – Icebound: Franklin’s lost expedition

  The fate of the Franklin expedition was finally revealed, thanks to the help of the Inuit people and their oral traditions.

  Dec 10, 2018
  
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• Lead poisoning eliminated as pivotal role in Franklin Expedition deaths

  University of Saskatchewan researchers helped provide new insights in the deaths of crew members from the ill-fated Franklin Expedition.

  Science

  Aug 24, 2018
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• Franklin expedition ships officially gifted to Canada and the Inuit people

  Canada and the Inuit are now officially co-owners of the two long-lost ships from the Franklin expedition.

  Canada

  Apr 26, 2018
• Canadian dive team prepares to search Franklin shipwrecks

  A team of underwater researchers is beginning its work on the two Sir John Franklin expedition shipwrecks.

  Environment

  Nov 7, 2016
• HMS Terror wreckage discovered 168 years after Northwest Passage attempt: report

  Eight years into the quest to solve a 168-year-old mystery, an Arctic research mission may have found the second of two shipwrecks from the ill-fated Franklin Expedition.

  Canada

  Sep 12, 2016
• WATCH: Video, interactive exhibit takes you inside doomed Franklin Expedition ship

  Video taken inside one of two ships lost during the ill-fated Franklin expedition gives a close-up look at one of maritime history's great mysteries.

  Canada

  Mar 23, 2016
• Franklin Expedition commemorative coin and stamps unveiled in Halifax

  There was a major unveiling at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Wednesday morning, as Canada Post revealed two new commemorative stamps and the Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a new coin - all paying tribute to the historic and ill-fated Franklin Expedition that searched for the Northwest Passage.

  Jul 22, 2015
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• Shearwater divers describe visit to Franklin wreckage as “electric”

  The ship was discovered last year, and a team consisting of Parks Canada divers and divers from the Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic) made a special trek to survey the wreckage in April.

  Jul 9, 2015
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• Iconic bell from Franklin ship recovered from vessel

  A brass bell from HMS Erebus, one of the two doomed ships from the Franklin expedition, is now in the hands of scientists in Ottawa.

  Canada

  Nov 6, 2014