John Rae With Inuit, Pelly Bay

Article: Dr. John Rae's telegraph survey: St. Paul, ...
Manitoba History;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...The name of Dr John Rae will always be remembered for his discovery ... Melville Peninsula, Committee Bay, Pelly Bay and the southern and eastern coasts ... and for this task they called on Dr. John Rae. He had resigned from the Company on ...

Article: William Edward Hearn on knowledge-based growth: innovator, or ...
History of Economics Review;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... 1) has been alleged to plagiarize John Rae (1796-1872). (2) Charles W. Mixter, a modern discoverer of John Rae, (3) referred to the Hearn-Rae ... centred around two main innovations of John Rae's growth theory: the theory of capital ...

Article: JOHN RAE ; Headmaster of Westminster
The Independent - London;  January 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ...John Rae was the Governing Body's third choice ... short headmastering experience behind him, John Rae arrived, fully fledged, on the London ... Headmasters' Conference in 1977. But John Rae was no revolutionary. He stopped short ...

Article: Treachery, cannibalism and a forgotten Arctic hero; Orcadian ...
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... KEAL ORKNEY'S forgotten Arctic hero, John Rae, deserved the kind of honours and accolades ... book Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, but for many, the two-part film based ... appears in Walker's film, Passage: The John Rae Story, sees it as a belated, but wonderfully ...

Article: Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the ...
The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...* Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered ... illus., $34.00 hardcover Dr. John Rae, at various times surgeon, clerk, chief ... licence to rewrite the facts of history? John Rae deserves better. Reviewed by William ...

Article: He was the man who found a way through the ice, and discovered ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  May 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... laid the items in the snow at his feet. John Rae picked up the powder horn, the items ... worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster. 'John Rae is the man whose bust should be in Westminster ... not John Franklin.' Supporters of Dr John Rae, born at the Hall of Clestrain in 1813 ...

Encyclopedia entry: John Rae
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      492 words ...John Rae 1813-93, Scottish arctic explorer, b. Orkney Islands. A physician in the employ of ... resorted to cannibalism. Bibliography: See K. McGoogan, Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot (2002).