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A digital archive of the only recorded evidence of Shakespeare performed by amateurs in the Canadian North. Crews sailing under the command of Sir. Edward Belcher in the 1852 expedition to find the lost Franklin ships performed Shakespeare's Hamlet…

Engraving of a scene from The Taming of the Shrew. Petruchio standing to left, right hand on his hip, holding up a new cap in his left and mocking its shape, before giving it back to the waiting haberdasher despite Catherine's protestations that…

Colour lithograph of politicians playing the roles in the play within Hamlet; a presentation cartoon from the "St. Stephens' Review."

Captain Franklin, Commander of the land Arctic expedition

Poster depicting various characters from William Shakespeare's plays and Globe Theatre.

W.A.B. [William Alexander Baillie] Hamilton, Secretary of the British Admiralty, authorized the publication of this broadside in March of 1850. It was part of the effort to find the crew and vessels connected to Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to…

Print of H.M.S. Resolute and H.M.S. Intrepid stuck in the ice while looking for Sir John Franklin.

Hand-coloured illustration of the story of the H.M.S. Resolute.

Image depicting H.M.S. Resolute from George F. McDougall's book The Eventful Voyage of HM Discovery Resolute to the Arctic Regions.

Image depicting coasts explored by the H.M.S. Assistance, H.M.S. Resolute, H.M.S. Intrepid, and H.M.S. Pioneer.