Shakespeare in Canada: A Cultural Map

Shakespeare in Canada: Exploring Our Cultural History through Digital Humanities

A project to create an online interactive cultural map of the presence of the Bard and the way in which his works have shaped Canadian culture.

Poster for the £20,000 Reward for the Discovery of the Missing Franklin Expedition

Title

Poster for the £20,000 Reward for the Discovery of the Missing Franklin Expedition

Creator

Hamilton, William Alexander Bailey

Subject

poster; reward; Sir John Franklin

Description

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 the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Franklin and his men, as well as the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, disappeared in the winter of 1847-48.

Date

1850-03-07

Format

broadside, print

Identifier

e010754422-v8

Source

Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; MIKAN no. 2981240
Krystyna Dodds, University of Ottawa (catologuer)

Language

English

Coverage

Rights

Library and Archives Canada

Files

e010754422-v8.jpg

Citation

Hamilton, William Alexander Bailey, “Poster for the £20,000 Reward for the Discovery of the Missing Franklin Expedition,” Shakespeare in Canada: A Cultural Map, accessed July 3, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/shakespearecanada/items/show/160.