In 1845, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror departed from England under the command of Sir John Franklin. The seasoned polar explorer and his crew of 128 other men were searching for the Northwest Passage,

Another piece of the Franklin Expedition puzzle has dropped into place. However, like most new bits of information concerning this enduring exploration mystery, it raises more questions than it answers.

The skeletal remains of a crew member from Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition was identified in a joint study by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University.

Nigel Gambier has always been proud of his ancestor, who captained one of the ill-starred ships on Sir John Franklin's disastrous expedition in search of the Northwest Passage.

The first known victim of cannibalism from the British Royal Navy's 1845 ill-fated Franklin expedition has been identified as ghost ship Captain James Fitzjames

THUNDER BAY — Researchers at Lakehead University's Paleo-DNA lab have played a key role in the identification of a senior officer with Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage.

James Fitzjames was one of the captains of British explorer Sir John Franklin's two ships that went missing in 1845.

Scientists have managed to identify bones belonging to a member of the Franklin expedition, a 19th-century voyage of exploration and discovery that ended in disaster, starvation and death. James Fitzjames — only the second member of the expedition's crew to be identified by DNA — captained one of the expedition's two ships and served as second-in-command after Sir John Franklin's death.

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University using DNA and genealogical analyses.