Captain Cook, Public Arcives of Canada Towards the ... There was still hope that there might be a Northwest Passage through the centre of the continent and Cook was trying to find its Pacific ...

In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. Once thought to be ice-free, the legendary North Pole ...

The expedition’s captain, a 34-year-old naval veteran ... drawn to the region in this period by the allure of a fabled Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as ...