John Rae (1813-1893)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Houston, C. Stuart
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1987
• Subjects: Biographies; Canoeing; Expeditions; Explorers; History; Hudson's Bay Company; Mapping; Physical fitness; Rae; John; 1813-1893; Search for Franklin; Snowshoeing; Subsistence; Survival; Boothia Peninsula; Nunavut; Dolphin and Union Strait; N.W.T./Nunavut; King William Island; Lord Mayor Bay; Melville Peninsula; Kugaaruk region; Quoich River; Repulse Bay (Hamlet) region; Simpson Peninsula; Victoria Island; Arctic; Bellot Strait; Charlton Island; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Hudson Strait; Kugaaruk; Moose Factory; Pelly Bay; Rae Isthmus; Rae Strait; Repulse Bay; Stromness; William Island; York Factory; eskimo*; James Bay; Moose
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64803

Dr. John Rae, who spent 22 years in British North America, accurately mapped more miles of North America's unknown northern coastline - excluding Hudson Bay - than did any other explorer. . Unusually adaptable and a crack shot, he learned native methods of living off the land. Remarkably fit, h...