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“It was abandoned in the ice and then the following year they found the ship on the east side of Baffin Island. It had freed itself from the ice and had sailed all the way through the passage with nobody on it. ”
August 28, 2012
Interview with Doug Brown
Doug Brown tells Jo Stanbridge about his experiences helping erect a cairn on Beechey Island, Nunavut, where the lost Franklin expedition overwintered in 1845-1846.
“All the kids ran, and I tried to run, and my overalls got caught on one of the pickets, and there I was: hanging. My cousins had all run away, and my grandmother said "I'm going to leave you there!" She gave me a proper scolding. ”
September 29, 2012
Interview with Terry and Deborah Hudson
Mother and daughter Terry and Deborah Hudson show Jo Stanbridge a studio portrait of Terry with her sister and aunt, taken in the 1920s.
“That teddy bear was given to me for my first birthday and I still have it. It didn't have a name, just Teddy. ”
September 29, 2012
Interview with Anna Sadura Healey
Anna Sadura Healey shows Jo Stanbridge a photo of herself from 1959, aged 2, with her teddy bear on the back steps of her home at 290 William Street.
“My grandfather died on Christmas Eve 1945 on a train that was running between Toronto and Winnipeg. He was on his way home for Christmas. When he died it was that little boy who got my grandmother through it. ”
September 29, 2012
Interview with Carla Douglas
Carla Douglas shows Margi McKay a photo from 1945 of her grandfather, Charles Cecil Irvine, holding her cousin Laird, aged two, on his shoulders.
“I just sat there in this crevice of this one tree, contemplating how long it had been there. These trees are between 1,000 and 1,500 years old — the longest-living organisms on earth — and can have girths up to 60 feet wide. ”
September 29, 2012
Interview with Rebecca McQuaid
Rebecca McQuaid talks to Margi McKay about her walk along Big Tree Trail on Meares Island, British Columbia and the photo she took of herself at the base of a giant cedar.
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