Dr. John Rae, with relics from the Franklin Expedition, gold medal, and map, August 1886
Dr. John Rae (1813-1893) was hired by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1833, and participated in four Arctic expeditions beginning in the fall of 1846. Among his chief accomplishments are discovering the last missing link in the mapping of the Northwest Passage, and, in 1854, discovering the fate of...
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Online Access: | http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/portraits/id/2459 |