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Harper Government Unveils Pieces of History from HMS Erebus

| Parks Canada | news releases

The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, today unveiled exciting new artefacts recovered from HMS Erebus. Providing a glimpse into the daily lives of the crew, the historical objects were recovered during the recent expedition by Parks Canada and Royal Canadian Navy divers working under the ice in the High Arctic to research the famed Sir John Franklin shipwreck.


2015 April Dive Results for Franklin Vessel HMS Erebus

| Parks Canada | backgrounders

After almost 170 years of searching to understand the fate of English explorer Sir John Franklin's fabled arctic voyage, a multilateral partnership from public, private and non-profit sectors, led by the Government of Canada, resulted in the finding of one of the two lost Franklin vessels, HMS Erebus, igniting worldwide attention. The combination of state-art technology with Inuit oral testimony led to the September 2014 discovery of Franklin's flagship, thus solving one of the world's greatest archæological mysteries.


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2017-05-26