Nice Outfit Loser 🙄 1845 Called. The Franklin Expedition Was Just Sighted By Whalers In Baffin Bay

canadian gothic

You have never seen the Tim Hortons’ employees outside their restaurant. You didn’t apply for a job there when you turned sixteen, but they called you all the same. Twice. 

There’s that boy you went to school with, Samuel, he was once so rude that they - you do not know any boy named Samuel. 

There comes a time in January when you cannot remember what’s buried under all that snow, and you are glad. 

You wonder what the others hear when the winds from the Great North blow; you always want to ask, but the winds made you promise not to. 

The week after the New Year, you walk past the frozen lake and hear knocking from under the ice. You smile, and you do not know why.

A warm summer means the maple syrup will taste like rust and something you do not want to name; the trees miss the cold. 

The hospital’s waiting room is always full and you can never remember why you’re here. 

The weatherman speaks of the coming snowstorm with a fondness you will take years to master, much to your sorrow. They can sense fear. 

The Norwegian research vessel Lance is stuck in the Arctic ice, 2015

Gotta love how in books about polar exploration, members of other expeditions keep showing up randomly like it's all just a cast of the same 20 white guys going back and forth between the north and south pole.

Historical crossover fanfiction

Aurora Borealis, by Frederic Edwin Church, 1865

The Icebergs (The North), by Frederic Edwin Church, 1861

In 1869 the New Bedford artist and photographer William Bradford took part in an expedition to northern Greenland sponsored by a Boston family. The trip was documented in this book, with albumen photos that are considered the finest artic photos of the mid to late 19 th century. The book is scarce with copies selling in the 125-150000 range.

Edwin Landseer (1802-1873) “Man Proposes, God Disposes” (1864) Animalier Located in the Royal Holloway, University of London, London, England

The painting was inspired by the search and disappearance of Sir John Franklin’s lost 1845 Arctic expedition that had set out to explore the Northwest Passage.

The final 20 miles of the Dalton driven in the fog, North Slope, Alaska

Taken August 2020

Man Proposes, God Disposes (1864) by Edwin Henry Landseer