By Alistair MacDonald
In 1845, British naval hero Sir John Franklin disappeared with 134 men while searching for the Northwest Passage through Arctic Canada.
Almost two centuries on, Canada hasn’t given up the search.
On Sunday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported the last discovery of artifacts from the voyage, undertaken by Franklin and his two ships, the Erebus and Terror.
Archeologists and CBC reporters found buttons, wooden debris, a suspected toothbrush and a tooth from an onshore site. Searchers have been turning up Franklin’s onshore debris, from tinned cans and spoons to fully buried bodies, since Victorian times, underscoring how this year’s quest is one of many, so far, unsuccessful searches. Read More »