Lectures 4 and 5:
The Quest for the Northwest Passage

 

Weekly Readings:

25 January

Lecture Outline

Morrison, “The Age of Exploration” in True North, 62-77.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography: biographies of Franklin, Sir John; Ross, Sir James Clark; and McClintock, Sir Francis Leopold. Available online through http://www.biographi.ca.

 

1 February

Lecture Outline

[Guest lecturer: Peter Kikkert, Arctic historian from the University of Western Ontario]

I.S. Maclaren, “The Aesthetic Map of the North, 1845-1859,” Arctic 38/2 (1985), 89-103. Available online at http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic38-2-89.pdf.

W. Gillies Ross, “False leads in the Franklin search,” Polar Record 39/209 (2003), 131-160. [Access through E-Journals @ University of Waterloo]

S. Grace, “Re-Inventing Franklin,” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 22 (1995), 707-723. [E-Reserve through UW Library]

 

Further Reading on the Search for the Northwest Passage:

Beattie, O. and J. Geiger, Frozen in Time  (1988)

Berton, P., The Arctic Grail.  The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole (1988)

Bunyan, I., J. Calder, D. Indiens and B. Wilson, eds., No Ordinary Journey.  John Rae, Arctic Explorer, 1813-1893

Cooke, A. and C. Holland, The Exploration of Northern Canada.  500 to 1920.  A Chronology (1977)

Davis, R., Sir John Franklin's Journals and Correspondence: The First Arctic Land expedition, 1819-1822 (1995)

Francis, D., Discovery of the North, The Exploration of Canada's Arctic (1986)

Morison, S.E., The European Discovery of America (1971)

Neatby, L., In Quest of the Northwest Passage (1958)

Neatby, L., The Search for Franklin

Neatby, L.H. "Exploration and History of the Canadian Arctic", in David Dumas, ed., Handbook of  North American Indians, volume 5, Arctic (1984), pp. 377-390.

Oleson, R., Early Voyages and Northern Approaches (1963)

Oswalt, W.H., Eskimos and Explorers (1979)

Sauer, C.O., Northern Mists (1968)

Sutherland, P.D., eds., The Franklin Era in Canadian Arctic History, 1845-1859 (1985)

Wallace, H.N., The Navy, the Company and Richard King, British Exploration in the Canadian Arctic, 1829-1860 (1980)

Woodman, D.C., Unravelling the Franklin Mystery.  Inuit Testimony (1991)

 

Sources on individual explorers can be found in the extensive bibliography on the Pathfinders & Passageways website.