Captain Henry Larsen and the Northwest Passage

The St. Roch and its captain Henry Larsen were the first to travel the Northwest Passage from west to east and the first to do it in a single season. Larsen and his crew weren’t explorers, they were RCMP officers who established Canadian sovereignty at a time when few people even cared about it. It’s a uniquely Canadian story - and one that’s not widely known - about charting new territory even as they dispensed justice, delivered mail, ferried supplies and people between remote communities.

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How could a ship with a wooden hull make it completely through the passage in a single season? I guess there must have been less ice then than there is now.

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In 1904 the Gjoa made it through with much less ice too. Regards from Alaska.

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What a guy that Henry...😆