Museum exhibit brings doomed Franklin Expedition to life

Karen Ryan, as an Arctic archaeologist, had always wanted to create an exhibit on the doomed Franklin Expedition.
By 2014, she was planning one at the Canadian Museum of History, focusing on how two strong ships and 129 sailors had vanished without a trace in the 1840s, defeating all efforts to find them ever since.
Then searchers found one ship in 2014. Two years later, they found the other.
The exhibit took a hard left turn. The result opens Friday at the museum: Death in the Ice, a joint effo