Another Franklin expedition crew member has been identified | Waterloo News

Portait of James Fitzjames who sailed aboard the HMS Erebus. 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. In April of 1848 James Fitzjames of HMS Erebus helped lead 105 survivors from their