In 1847, Sir John Franklin and a crew of 128 men disappeared while searching for the fabled Northwest Passage. A National Geographic team sought to find evidence of their fate—but the Arctic doesn’t give up its secrets easily
, respectively, most Franklinites shifted their attention to what would be recovered from them by archaeologists. But I’d heard about one guy living in the far reaches of Canada’s Northwest Territories who was still searching for what he believed to be the mystery’s holy grail: the tomb of Sir John Franklin.one night in 1990 and dreamed he found the final resting place of Sir John Franklin. “I dreamed I found him in Toronto,” he said.
His most promising lead came in 2004 when an Inuit hunter named Ben Putuguq told him about a rectangular “stone house” that he’d found on the north side of King William. Inside, Putuguq saw four stone vaults. The structure had large black rocks surrounding its doorway and was dug into the side of a ridge, and Putuguq was adamant that it was unlike anything Inuit would build.
But in the excitement of the moment, he’d failed to record the coordinates on the plane’s GPS. He and his co-pilot assumed their path would be easy to retrace, but on subsequent flights, the stone structure eluded them, lost in a labyrinth of homogenous gravel ridges shrouded by fog and rapidly changing weather. After several more seasons of searching, they’d systematically ruled out everywhere but a 30-square-mile grid—the area he planned to search during his next trip.
It was molting season, and white goose feathers floated in the air all around us like thistledown. Without their plumage, the geese couldn’t fly, and as they ran hither and yon, their honking ever present, we saw a number of scraggly, black-furred arctic foxes in hot pursuit. And I wondered how many of these birds Franklin’s men may have harvested during the summers they spent here on the island.
When Jacob was five, Canadian authorities forced the family to move to Gjoa Haven so the children could receive formal education. The family was given a small house and a modest allowance, but the money wasn’t enough to afford the imported food sold at the Hudson’s Bay store, and the hunting around Gjoa Haven was poor. At school, Jacob struggled to fit in. “I had caribou clothes—caribou pants, caribou mitts, caribou everything,” he said.
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