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Hace 5 días · For 12 years, various expeditions sought the explorers, but their fate was unknown until 1859, when a final search mission, sent in 1857 by Franklin’s second wife, Lady Jane Franklin, and headed by Capt. Francis Leopold McClintock, reached King William Island, south and west of Lancaster Sound.
Hace 4 días · An explorer named Francis Leopold McClintock found a skeleton on King William Island on 25 May 1859. It was believed to be the remains of Harry Peglar (36), but this proved to be untrue and its identity and cause of death are unknown.
Hace 3 días · Francis Leopold McClintock: Arctic explorer 1972 Nellie McClung: Politician, feminist, social activist (first female board member of CBC) 1954 Robert McClure: Arctic explorer 1972 Grant McConachie: Businessman, aviator (development of northwestern Canadian service) 2007 David Ross McCord: Lawyer, philanthropist, founded McCord Museum ...
Hace 5 días · After leaving Greenland in July they were never seen again. Many expeditions went in search of Franklin, and in 1854 John Rae found evidence of bodies from the two ships on King William Island. In 1859 Leopold McClintock confirmed the disappearance of the ships' entire crews.
Hace 5 días · The island was discovered by Europeans in 1851 by Francis Leopold McClintock and it was named for Albert Edward who was the oldest son of Queen Victoria and had the title of Prince of Wales at the time. Fifty years later in 1901 Albert Edward would rise to the position of King Edward VII.
Hace 5 días · Pope Francis has been trying to find a way to rid the Church of clericalism. And he believes the recipe is synodality, the notion that all we are all walking together, priests and people.
Hace 3 días · In Belgium, the focal points of the rage were the statues of King Leopold II who presided over the pillaging of Congo’s natural resources and the violent exploitation of its population. The sovereign’s rule was brutal, even by the standards of 19th-century imperialism.
