The next steps

• A new continent in the way
• Land and sea routes were explored
• Let's look at two

John Franklin

Trip 1

• Overland Hudson's Bay to Coppermine
• Began 1819
• Winter Fort Chipewyan
• 1820 followed Yellowknife River
• Built Fort Enterprise for winter stay

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• Supplies very short
• Franklin's manner changed
• Re supply helped
• 1821 - reached coast
• Hoped for Inuit help

Things got bad

• Canoes were discarded
• Eating lichen
• Fort Enterprise starved 3 weeks
• Natives saved them
• 1822 returned to Europe

2nd Trip

• More prep and self sufficient
• 1824 Great Bear Lake
• 1826 split party.
• 100km short
• East of Coppermine charted

3rd Trip

• 1845 steam ships
• Heated vessel
• Explore Lancaster sound
• July 26 last seen by whalers

Search

• 1847 - 1859 30 teams
• Notes reveled stuck in ice
• Slowly starved

Henry Hudson

• 1607 turned back at Greenland
• 1608 route north of Russia blocked
• 1609 landed NS traded
• Headed south to NY
• Return boat seized by English

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• 1610 English investors
• Hudson Bay
• Trapped in ice in James Bay
• Spent the winter
• June 1611 mutiny

Your Hudson

• Come up with a logical argument
• You're trying not to be left to die
• Read it, write it, share it
• You need to convince the panel