05/20/2026
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7198039
Researchers identify four more sailors from the lost Franklin Expedition
CBC's Mary-Jean Cormier stopped by Lakehead’s Paleo-DNA lab to find out how modern science is helping researchers identify more sailors from the lost Franklin Expedition, one of Canada’s oldest Arctic mysteries.
05/06/2026
https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/dna-matches-identify-four-more-sailors-franklin-expedition
DNA matches identify four more sailors from Franklin expedition | Waterloo News
Researchers have identified four more members of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition, one of whom was the subject of great debate lasting for more than a century. Anthropologists from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo led the work that analyzed DNA samples extracted from skeletal rem...