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2/3 The University of Waterloo's Prof. Douglas Stenton excavating an as-yet unidentified sailor whose remains were found with those of John Gregory Robert W. Park/ University of Waterloo 3/3 Diana Trepkov/University of Waterloo Over the years, archeologists have unearthed the remains of members of the infamous Franklin expedition, although it hasn't been possible to confirm the individuals' identities. Thanks to DNA analysis, however, scientists have now done so for the first time. Led by Sir John Franklin, the Arctic exploration expedition departed from Englan...

THUNDER BAY - On July 9, 1845, Warrant Officer John Gregory, an engineer aboard HMS Erebus, sent a letter from Greenland to his wife Hannah before sailing off with the ill-fated Franklin Expedition into the Canadian Arctic and into an enduring historical mystery. For 176 years that letter was the last Gregory’s descendants had known about his journey, but now they have an ending to his story, as his remains have become the first from the expedition to be identified genetically with the help of researchers at Lakehead University’s Paleo-DNA Lab. “Everybody wants to know what happened. ...

Mystery remains from doomed 1845 voyage identified Scientists have identified the skeletal remains of a crewmember aboard a doomed exploratory voyage 176 years ago, using DNA extracted from a distant descendant. The remains of Warrant Officer John Gregory were found in 1859, but it took until now to identify them. Researchers from University of Waterloo, Lakehead University, and Trent University extracted DNA from the teeth and bones of the remains in 2013. READ MORE: The Franklin expedition ended with the deaths of everyone on board.(W. Thomas Smith / National Maritime Museum) And the DNA ma...

 E-Mail Credit: Diana Trepkov/ University of Waterloo The identity of the skeletal remains of a member of the 1845 Franklin expedition has been confirmed using DNA and genealogical analyses by a team of researchers from the University of Waterloo, Lakehead University, and Trent University. This is the first member of the ill-fated expedition to be positively identified through DNA. DNA extracted from tooth and bone samples recovered in 2013 were confirmed to be the remains of Warrant Officer John Gregory, engineer aboard HMS Erebus. The results matched a DNA sample obtained from a direct des...

First member of Britain's doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition has been identified: DNA samples reveal the face of Warrant Officer John Gregory, one of the crew forced to turn to cannibalism before perishing after his ship became stuck in Arctic ice All 129 crew members on HMS Erebus and HMS Terror of the Franklin Expedition died between 1845 and 1848 The boats got stuck in ice around King William Island and the crew were trapped in the Canadian Arctic  More than 100 survived for more than 18 months and mounted a last-ditch attempt to reach safety on foot  Everyone perished and remains of the sa...