Stan Rogers: Northwest Passage
Try to listen to this without getting all teary-eyed. Sung not by Stan Rogers, of course, but the St. Patrick’s Regional Secondary Chamber Choir Men, in Vancouver.
Gordon Lightfoot: Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald
Tragically Hip: Nautical Disaster
i did a comic about franklin for a children’s magazine a couple years ago. I did a bit of research before doing the illustrations and got sucked into the story of his failed expedition. It’s riveting. Turns out he was a real asshole and the whole crew basically died as a result of ego and arrogance.
yes, like the big multinational CEOs of today, i think you would have had to be psychotic to be an arctic explorer… !