"It might just be, you know, 'last week we ate 14 cans of beef,' for example," he said.įor McGoogan, one the first questions is whether contemporary conservators can decipher what's in the book after all that time it sat in the ocean. McGoogan thinks the information gleaned from the folio, which was found in Erebus' pantry during a diving expedition by Parks Canada archaeologists this past year, might be limited, but still valuable. Since 2014, when Erebus was finally found (and Terror, two years later) with a combination of Inuit oral history and systematic, high-tech surveys, Parks Canada has been working to understand what is down there and what light it could shed on a story that has become part of Canadian lore. Commander Sir John Franklin and his 129 men never returned. Even deeper is the other ship, HMS Terror.Įrebus and Terror set out from England in 1845. The wreck lies 11 metres below the surface of the Northwest Passage. The other items include things such as a feather quill pen, stoneware plates, platters and serving dishes. The folio - a book or diary of sorts - is among the total of 275 artifacts recovered last year from HMS Erebus, one of two ships that went missing in the 1800s in the Arctic. John Franklin's doomed ships might just show how recoverable other documents might be in future searches, according to Canadian historian Ken McGoogan. A leather-bound folio found in one of Capt.
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