Encounters on the Passage
Inuit elders who grew up in camps on the shores of Frobisher Bay can tell you what happened when Martin Frobisher arrived with his vessel in 1576: "He fired two warning shots into the air. So right away there were some grievances." Frobisher''s shots were the opening salvos in the search for the Northwest Passage, a search that lasted for more than four hundred years and riveted the Western world,...
Inuit elders who grew up in camps on the shores of Frobisher Bay can tell you what happened when Martin Frobisher arrived with his vessel in 1576: "He fired two warning shots into the air. So right away there were some grievances." Frobisher''s shots were the opening salvos in the search for the Northwest Passage, a search that lasted for more than four hundred years and riveted the Western world,...
