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KENN HARPER
In last week’s article, Robert McClure has established with certainty the existence of a Northwest Passage. But his ship remained locked in the ice of Prince of Wales Strait.
In the summer of 1851 ice still blocked McClure’s hoped-for passage into Melville Sound, so he reversed his...
...KENN HARPER
Last week I began the story of Captain Robert McClure and the ship Investigator. The story continues with McClure having beaten his expedition commander, Richard Collinson, to the Beaufort Sea in 1850.
McClure and the crew of the Investigator sailed on to the north-east, into......
......The ship Investigator has been much in the news lately, a result of her discovery by Parks Canada late last month in the waters of Mercy Bay on Banks Island, surely one of the most isolated spots in the Northwest Territories.
So I thought it would be appropriate to delve into the history of this...
KENN HARPER
In March 1905, whaling master George Comer was comfortably ensconced in his vessel, the Era, at Fullerton Harbour in the extreme south-western corner of Foxe Basin, where he and his crew were spending their second winter.
Nearby an official Canadian government vessel, the Arctic, was...
KENN HARPER
In early January of 1909 the Arctic Club of America met for its 15th annual dinner at the Hotel Marlborough in New York.
The club, a loose affiliation of men interested in the Arctic and its exploration, had been founded by those who had gone north in the summer of 1894 on Dr....
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