There remained yet another medal to be given out. He added that if the Laurier had come north to clear a path for his vessel, then perhaps "HMS Terror would have been discovered. A Government of Nunavut archaeology team then made a breakthrough discovery of a large iron object: part of the boat-lifting gear from a British naval ship. This pair of epaulettes was discovered in its box, within what is believed to be the 3rd Lieutenant’s Cabin, on the lower deck. One blurred image captured him walking next to a woman, on their way into the ceremony. “All the vessels had to head into the so-called southern search area,” Geiger told McDonald. On 7 September 2014 the wreck of HMS Erebus was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in Wilmot and Crampton Bay, to the west of the Adelaide Peninsula just to the south of King William Island. The day of the discovery, Sept. 2, saw him send another email to Campbell aimed at getting the Laurier to move out of its southern location to help clear his ship’s progress. Harper and Geiger were together again in May 2014. But DRDC also said the AUV was deployed another five times during the Victoria Strait Expedition. The final straw came when in April 2015 Balsillie watched the aforementioned documentary about the expedition on CBC’s The Nature of Things. Artifacts are being researched and analyzed, and the search for the Erebus’ sister ship, the Terror, will continue. “I can’t believe this guy,” he said, rolling his eyes. "During the five remaining surveys the equipment was used to analyze the performance in cold water while searching for the Franklin ships and any associated debris," the spokesperson said in an email. These restrictions do not affect the right of access by Nunavut Inuit for harvesting as provided in the Nunavut Agreement. Contact Paul Watson at craig.silverman+watson@buzzfeed.com. I also currently do not have a signed contract with a Canadian publisher.). Prior to the RCGS joining the expedition, in May 2013, Geiger had a private meeting with the prime minister. The Canadian Press, the national news service, reported: The moment the ship was discovered this past weekend, said Geiger, “we were surrounded by ice — we were in a noose of ice — and so it was a real sense of connection, of immediate connection to Franklin and the men on those two ships. You know, he’s a student of the north. “Environment Canada has ‘muzzled’ its scientists, ordering them to refer all media queries to Ottawa where communications officers will help them respond with ‘approved lines,’” reported Canwest News. "I’ve participated in one or two since the discovery. (Park's field partner, Doug Stenton, was one of the other recipients.
“There was a lot of shit going on at that time.”. What followed was a dispute over the facts of, and credit for, the historic find. Harper sat in front of the banner at the head of the table. The final image was of the woman's hand blocking the lens of the reporter’s camera as he tried to get answers from the man who told the story of Erebus to Canada and the world.
They could feel it. According to Smithsonian Magazine, Parks Canada’s underwater archaeology team found over three hundred and fifty artifacts including wine bottles, personal items, and cooking and dining supplies. To the Parks Canada–led team that did find Erebus, it sounded like Geiger was trying to claim that he was there. Aglukkaq, who joined him that day, is from Nunavut and is the minister responsible for developing Canada’s north, which Harper has called “a great treasure house.” Geiger, another important ally at the table, had joined them and a cadre of other PMO staffers, dignitaries, and insiders on the prime minister’s 2013 northern trip. The most successful found sailors’ bodies, unearthing bones with blade cuts that betrayed the cannibalism of the desperate survivors. A recovered hairbrush with strands of hair still attached may offer clues to the sailors’ diet and stress levels. "I was on another ship involved in the search, in the ice somewhere north of the Royal Geographical Society Islands at the time. This hairbrush was discovered on the lower deck, in one of the officers’ cabins. These methods allowed for the retrieval of many of the artifacts from the Erebus. Sealing wax was used to seal letters and envelopes. Fringe-like gold bullions are attached to the sides.
Some of them were Inuit, the natives of the area, but most were of European descent. Balsillie said he was “troubled that Canadian history is not being presented accurately and I have expressed my concerns to [Geiger] in the past.”. But the ships, where archaeologists hoped to find preserved logbooks or other records that could help explain why all 129 sailors and officers died, remained elusive.
The Background information was provided by our curators, Claire Warrior and Jeremy Mitchell. Geiger’s organization hosted the cocktail reception at the museum, which cost $100 a ticket. 1992 | Wrecks of the Erebus and Terrorwere designated as a National Historic Site of Canada, despite no one at that time knowing where they were. The contract related to the expedition specifically says, “In dealing with the media, the Parties shall not speak for one another unless previously agreed to in writing through an established and jointly-developed media protocol.”, Parks Canada also secured the right “to approve all products and messages related to this project to ensure accuracy.”, Geiger said in an email that the RCGS's role "has been to celebrate the discovery, and the role played by Parks Canada with the support of public and private partners, and to share the story with Canadians. Join 1000s of subscribers and receive the best Vintage News in your mailbox for FREE, Police arrest a 72-year-old “suburban grandfather” suspected of being the Golden State Killer, “I’m not dead yet”: some Buddhist monks followed self-mummification, Project Azorian: Howard Hughes’ secret mission, 1960s U.S. satellite that started transmitting again in 2013, The “Walk of Shame” in Game of Thrones historical inspiration, The only unsolved skyjacking case in U.S. history might have a break, Kurt Gödel became too paranoid to eat and died of starvation, “Little Ease”: One of the most feared torture devices in the Tower of London, The humble English girl who became Cora Pearl, Walt Disney softened the original Snow White story.
There’s tremendous economic, you know, future in the north. Stenton examined the object, a hairpin-shaped fixture of rusting iron slightly longer than his forearm.
While I don’t want to speculate about the motivation of RCGS and its partners in creating an alternative narrative for themselves and their role in the Victoria Strait partnership I am concerned that official communication outputs, such as this documentary, contain versions of the search that are misleading to the Canadian public. It was struck this year to honor “participants in the 2014 Victoria Strait Expedition and their contributions to the discovery of HMS Erebus.”. Imagine a cluster of islands in a frozen sea, a home for the endangered Peary caribou, a traditional hunting and fishing area that has sustained Inuit of Resolute Bay since the time of their relocation in the 1950’s; Qausuittuq National Park is all of that and more. Watch video footage from the dive below. This time it was Geiger’s turn. More than 10 sources with direct knowledge of the discovery tell BuzzFeed Canada that they felt Geiger's comments to the press often created the impression that he was there for the moment of discovery and had been involved in the find.
The discovery was made when the Arctic Research Foundation’s ship made a detour to Terror Bay to follow up on a recollection made by one of the crew. “I think I have Franklin fever.”. "She has been a fellow since 2012. From August 20 to September 12, 2019 over 350 artifacts were recovered from HMS Erebus, including officer’s epaulettes and ceramic dishes, mainly from two cabin areas. The role continued in October when Harper told the House of Commons that the wreck had been identified as Erebus.
That email had reached Campbell just after midnight on Sept. 2 — hours before the Parks Canada team aboard the Laurier found the wreck. Geiger soon became frustrated with the situation aboard the Vavilov. Geiger is also planning to publish a book, which, by the publisher’s description, is focused on the 2014 Victoria Strait Expedition and the discovery of Erebus. BuzzFeed Canada conveyed these concerns in a list of questions submitted to Geiger and the RCGS. On board was a piece of Canada’s most cutting-edge marine technology in the form of a yellow robotic sub called Arctic Explorer. It also included a now-standard restriction from the Prime Minister’s Office: “Photo opportunity only (cameras and photographers only).”.
The curt notice from the Canadian prime minister's press secretary gave no hint that history had been made. ), Park said that anyone who had been following the media coverage of Erebus would have assumed Geiger "played a central role and thus deserved the award since his was definitely the most prominent public face in the media immediately following the discovery.
Harper's Twitter account shared a photo of the two of them together aboard the HMCS Kingston. The AUV was also featured in the documentary that later aired on The Nature of Things, and which was the impetus for Balsillie to raise objections in a letter to the government. I was not in possession of a crystal ball. Or perhaps not. Roughly 65 nautical miles north-northwest of Noon and those aboard the Laurier sat the Vavilov. On Sept. 10, the morning after Harper’s announcement, I sat down for breakfast on a lower deck of the Laurier. John Geiger today at Polar Medals ceremony: Declined to explain Geographic Society's role in finding HMS Erebus.
“We were having issues at that point because they’re saying, ‘We’re going to go and try to find open water. They were never seen again — until a team of Canadian searchers discovered the … Later that day, around the time a small group of searchers on the Laurier celebrated the historic find, Geiger sent a series of tweets announcing the first deployment of the robotic sub from the Vavilov. The medal ceremony was a painful reminder to those aboard the Laurier: They knew that if the professionals at Parks Canada had listened to Geiger and called their ship north into Victoria Strait late last August, Erebus could still be hidden in her Arctic tomb, enshrouded in thick kelp. I did not know Jeremy Hunt at the time." Marc-André Bernier: “I would like to show you a bit of what we’ve done… and how we’re proceeding with excavation… and what we’ve found.”. This stamp is made of 3 lead pieces pressed together with lettering “Ed. Marc-Andre Bernier (right), chief of Parks Canada's underwater archaeology unit.
“Most people were supportive of me in sending the letter, but a couple of civil servants cautioned me that if I pushed too hard, the PMO could ‘destroy me and my friends,'” he said. Given its high quality and where it was found, the hairbrush was likely used by one of the officers. Geiger correctly said that he was on One Ocean Voyager, but added that sea ice forced the full expedition’s flotilla south of Victoria Strait, which in his case wasn’t true. You know there was a toast proposed very shortly thereafter. Using this method, the divers managed 93 dives for a total of about 110 hours in August and September last year. They watched a seabed crisscrossed with scours and gouges carved by ancient ice fields scroll slowly past on a laptop screen. Now they were together to share a discovery steeped in historical and political import. Parks Canada’s Underwater Archaeology Team uses water induction dredges, trowels, and sometimes light hand-fanning to carefully remove sediments from around buried artifacts, exposing them for mapping, photography, and recovery. Geiger has led the RCGS since 2013, the year before he attached it to the high-profile expedition to find Franklin’s ships. Geiger and the RCGS had joined the search for Franklin’s ships just a few months before the discovery. Not a tremble from the three huge diesel electric engines that sit deep in the CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s boiling belly. As part of his Arctic sovereignty initiative, his government began funding expeditions in 2008 to find Franklin’s ships. His full name is John Grigsby Geiger.
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