Oops! Parks Canada reveals secret map of Franklin shipwreck
Secrecy has surrounded the discoveries of the doomed ships of the Franklin Expedition since they were found — HMS Erebus in 2014 and Terror in 2016.
First, former prime minister Stephen Harper insisted on revealing the Erebus find personally in a controlled photo-op. No questions allowed.
Since then, Parks Canada has given out information in tightly-controlled media releases. Even academic historians have only limited access to the story.
And the tightest secret of all? The locations of th
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