Broken generator forces Canadian warship to quit Arctic mission: navy FIRST READING ... neither Russia nor China has gone through the Northwest Passage without first getting Canada’s blessing.

In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage ... William Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago ...

Sir John Franklin led the two ships and 129 men in 1845 to chart the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The expedition's disappearance shortly after became one of the great mysteries of the ...

He said a Conservative government would upgrade the military’s forward operating location in Inuvik to a full base, to be named Canadian ... is adjacent to the Northwest Passage.

Last year, a Canadian warship came upon a Chinese research ... At the same time, the Northwest Passage, once a frozen graveyard, is increasingly navigable throughout the year.