Social Studies

  • John Torrington

    John Torrington
    John Torrington who died trying to find the N.W passage with Franklin's crew of 129 men and no one returned to england.
  • S.S

    S.S
    Searchers found three graves on beechy island in 1859, some puzzling clues turned up on King William Island. Franklins crew left two notes dating from
  • Beattie

    Beattie
    Dr. Owen Beattie from the U of A led a team of researchers to Beechy island for evidence of Torrington. Beattie was a special kind of anthropologist... a forensic one
  • Finding Torrington

    Finding Torrington
    Beattie and his team set up their camp on Beechy island on 1984 in August. It took days to hack the ice that was holding Torrington's coffin, inside the ice-encased Torrington. A blue woolen cloth covered his face.
  • Erobus

    Erobus
    Another boat that the Franklin Expedition used was the Erobus in 1840. And a search team in 2014 found it after a very long time of searching with the team.
  • Terror

    Terror
    Searchers found one of the boats that the Franklin's expedition used in 1848 when they were trying to find the N.W passage the boat that they have found was the terror