Northwest Passage but you're searching for Sir John Franklin's lost expedition

[@sirjohnfranklingaming]

Guys I'm right here wtf

[@Despotic_Waffle]

I can see your hand reaching for Beaufort sea o7

[@therealskull4786]

no way

[@urbanz-games102]

@@Kristian-ql8zw Scaled to inflation and todays currency that $20k is actually like $2mil

[@B12BENNETT]

Hello, Sir John.

[@Abyssal_Eel]

Who said that??!

[@Anonymaus209]

_'Tell those who come after us not to stay. The ships are gone. There is no way through, no passage. Tell them we are gone. Dead and gone.'_

[@InquisitorThomas]

“In hindsight we shouldn’t have named the ships the Erebus and the Terror, we were kinda tempting fate with that one.”

[@lore5068]

* Angry Warhammer Noises *

[@nowhereman6019]

Yeah, wtf were they thinking.

[@saneiscrazy5100]

Well they were old warships that were converted for the journey

[@connormclernon26]

@@saneiscrazy5100 they were bomb ships which due to their duties as such were believed to be sufficiently strong enough to break ice

[@MaritimeHorrors]

@@connormclernon26 They were strong enough to break ice, their hulls were reinforced and they even had early steam engines with brass screws. Unfortunately they could do nothing in pack ice and the winters of 1847-1848 were particularly lengthy and cold. The ice didn't thaw, and after 18 months they were forced to abandon ship.

[@TrenchcoatNinja3]

The song is even more depressing when you know about the Franklin expedition.

[@josephlongbone4255]

God bless the poor souls aboard HMS's Erebus and Terror.

[@terciodeflandes97]

What happened to them?

[@Weathund]

Their ships ended up getting locked in the ice in northern Canada and they all ended up dying in very horrible ways.

[@josephlongbone4255]

@@terciodeflandes97 It's one of those horror stories that really happened, they were eating the dead bodies by the end.

[@perezkoala]

I watched the horror series, Terror, and found out it was based on a real story. Checked it and it's way more horrifying than the series, those poor men survived for years and ended up boiling their bones to look for marrow.

[@courtneypapigatuk-bentley6082]

As an Inuk who is from around that straight I had actually never heard of Franklin's expedition until I watched The Terror. That show had such an impact because I've lost family who went missing out on the ice, I then did research on the expedition and all I can say is it was so tragic, and I'm so grateful for this song

[@nikolaiaramov4851]

This is so badass

[@knyghtmordhaus9170]

Ok This may come of as rude given your comment, but as a fellow canadian who has only heard of Nunavut assuming your there, I really want to know. Hows the internet up there?

[@courtneypapigatuk-bentley6082]

@@knyghtmordhaus9170 absolutely horrible

[@krusher181]

@@nikolaiaramov4851 nah it’s sad, made me almost cry... they have family who died from the weather. Fucking sucks. RIP to your friends and family. Respect to Inuits, Inuks, whatever terminology I should use. Northern folk.

[@courtneypapigatuk-bentley6082]

@@krusher181 thank you so much, I appreciate it, yes, we've all lost to the ice, yet it's our home, a place of pure deadly silence and peace that I'd choose over any other place

[@Banzai_-xn8ip]

Meanwhile, somewhere in Antarctica... Sea shanty about finding Robert Falcon Scott's failed expedition

[@faithnfire4769]

@J S Started reading those last letters due to this comment. Holy cow, those are strong words. I need to read the rest. Thank you very much for the reminder. Those letters should be taught along with the failed journey in general, I really do think they show one hell of a crew.

[@poiuyt975]

Didn't it fail because they reached the Mountains of Madness? ;-)

[@TruePT]

@J S Brings tears of manliness to my eyes. Indeed, they be true examples of Gentlemanliness, and Masculinity! God Bless and Rest those poor brave souls.

[@evigvandrare]

@@faithnfire4769 Go read Fiennes' biography of Scott, it does the man justice.

[@Sinstarclair]

@@poiuyt975 It didn't actually fully flopped, They Reached the Geographic South Pole, only to find out that a Norwegian Group has been there, 34 days Earlier. The only failure was the return trip.

[@chillemdafoe1738]

Holy shit a youtuber who didnt use bones in the ocean or wellerman for this meme. Fucking finally

[@lejammiedodgere]

There really are a lot of great songs that sadly don't get the same amount of recognition.

[@chillemdafoe1738]

If youre considering a follow up i suggest “randy dandy oh” or “haul away joe”

[@RustyARMPIT12]

Santiana is a really good song too

[@chillemdafoe1738]

@@RustyARMPIT12 big agree

[@kennethschlegel870]

Now that Stan is on the table we could do flowers of bermuda, barrets privateers, white squall....the option are near endless

[@Swenthorian]

Oh thank goodness -- you used Stan Rogers's version. A man of culture.

[@lejammiedodgere]

The only true version!

[@_richardmiranda]

What about the Unleash the Archers version of Northwest Passage? I think that one is pretty dope too.

[@lejammiedodgere]

I feel it has a different tone to Stan's, but it shines in its own way.

[@MrCurbinator]

@@lejammiedodgere I’m with the Longest johns on this. Their switching the order of the initial verse worked really well. All respect due to the stan man

[@dean_l33]

Yo y'all are forgetting the dreadnaught version

[@antitoxine7012]

The Franklin expedition might be the most horrifying and depressing journey i've ever eared of. Capitain Franklin, his two boat HMS Terror and Erebus, and all of his crew. They searched for the northwest passage, an hypothetical way throw the arctic archipeligo between alaska and greenland. They suffered the cold, scorbut and led poisoning. An eternal winter where the frozen sea never melted. They died alone, and nobody ever saw them again, the last of them died more than two years after there ship got stuck in the ice. Ervyone tried to search for them, only to face the same frozen hell they faced all those years ago. For sure those men were not the fisrt to defie this region. But even today, this archipeligo might be the most hostile place on earth for sailors.

[@luisa.espinoza48]

@@aidenthesnork3055 who charted the passage?

[@Ozymandias1]

It''s now navigable by bulk carriers and cruise ships because the loss of ice due to climate change.

[@Fabianwew]

It wasn't crossed until over 50 years later, in 1903-1906 by a Norwegian expedition team. First single season passage was done in 1944 also by a Norwegian-Canadian captain. Only 290 known ships has thus far managed the pass.

[@lawsharland7278]

here's a depressing fact the native Inuit report seeing Captain Francis Crozier and one other man near Baker Lake in 1858 a full 12 years after the expedition departed still lost and far from civilisation

[@hi-am-pat2k176]

Sir franklin be like:welp i guess i'll die

[@Clutchoid]

That feel when you find Franklin's lost expedition, but get shunned for returning the details of the tale and fate. To Quote the Rae-Richardson Artic Expedtion - "Other searchers for Franklin were granted knighthoods for their service, but Rae was not. Ultimately, he did collect a £10,000 reward for resolving the Franklin question, but by then he had been largely omitted from the picture, to be largely forgotten by history. Despite the fact that Francis Leopold McClintock located skeletal evidence on King William Island that supported Rae's account, he was never forgiven for delivering the bad news.[6] Rae retired from exploration a short time later, and ultimately his contributions as an explorer were recognized when he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1880."

[@tadhgmcinerney8654]

It should be noted that Rae wasn't shunned for declaring the failed expedition, he was shunned for suggesting Franklins Crew cannibalized each other in a desperate bid for survival. Their rations had spoiled and nothing grew or lived on King William Island, the site of their last encampment. No one wanted to imagine that "Esteemed English Gentlemen" would resort to such a thing.

[@sergeant_chris6209]

@@tadhgmcinerney8654 this reminds me of the end of "Lord of the Flies"

[@moblinmajorgeneral]

@@tadhgmcinerney8654 This is probably a similar sentiment as to why people never treated the Donner Party survivors quite the same after their ordeal. It's easy to criticize cannibalism when you aren't forced to go through with it, especially in times where people thought themselves more than animals (we are, but there's no way these people would've come out of any major 20th century event with their sanity intact).

[@yona1478]

@@tadhgmcinerney8654 And now he's vindicated! They did, in fact, eat each other.

[@greas1233]

"After two years and no word from the expedition, Lady Franklin urged the Admiralty to send a search party. Because the crew carried supplies for three years, the Admiralty waited another year before launching a search" Yo wtf.

[@josephohara2457]

A bigger question is why did they wait until the last year?

[@Rookie880]

“Another one” - Jedi Master yoda

[@frumentarii376]

Or thor 🤣

[@davidec.4021]

D-dj Khaled?

[@jackpot8072]

One another

[@matthewconley9869]

Finally northwest passage gets some love.I'm a merchant mariner (sailor) for a living.I've always had a special place in my heart for this song.I kinda laughed at the shanty trend...but I'm so glad it shares this song with so many people.

[@RaptorJesusHimself]

Please keep posting shanties mate these are getting me through the hard times

[@James-pt7yh]

Keep braving the maelstrom sailor, the calmest seas appear only after the most brutish of storms.

[@quattroarclight8945]

I feel that man these shanties help me as well.

[@oierlarumbelizarraga7955]

Same happens to me, I'm at my last year of the degree of mathematics and this songs give me energy to complete all my assignments.

[@kujjeil5527]

Just remember... When ships were made of wood, men were made of steel. (One of my favorite quotes.) Stay strong.

[@therandomdickhead5744]

Miss ya mates :(

[@aurelianus1308]

Immediately after this video he was eaten by a Native American Bear Spirit

[@Leaninmyspleen.]

The tunnbaq is Inuit, sorry

[@aurelianus1308]

@@Leaninmyspleen. I know, actually. Was referencing the book and TV show The Terror, which utilized the Tuunbaq in a fictionalized tale of the Franklin Expedition.

[@joshmcirish352]

That sucks.

[@jonbeingjon]

For anyone wondering the song is about lost ships exploring the far north arctic sea for shipping lanes and where rediscovered pretty recently. The HMS Erebus in 2014 and the HMS Terror in 2016.

[@ThZuao]

And both ships were lost in 1845.

[@SStupendous]

@@ThZuao Around 1846-8, actually, 1845 was when they departed

[@thanhool]

Its also about forging your own path in life and finding inspiration from the explorers who traveled across canada.

[@ruth4376]

No shit sherlock

[@edwardmeade]

It's actually about the migration of out-of-work fishermen from the Canadian Maritimes to the Alberta oil fields looking for work in the 1970s and 1980s when the cod fisheries collapsed.

[@moritamikamikara3879]

"They are out there in... UNIMAGINABLE temperatures, and no one can convince me that... Confidence and... Optimism... is warm enough!"

[@Berserker3624]

What kept the natives on that god forsaken spit of land alive then?

[@0_dearghealach_083]

@@Berserker3624 Fur coats.

[@flickcentergaming680]

​@@0_dearghealach_083don't forget igloos and seal blubber! Those three things are vital for life up there.

[@Dylan-rx6wi]

Got the reference ;)

[@thetau4866]

Seal Meat and Fur Coats. They knew how to survive without the essentials. Franklins crew did not. ​@@Berserker3624

[@aaronyoung484]

*Captain's journal* *Date:* I'm not sure anymore Our search for Sir John Franklin's expedition continues still. The constant blizzards have blended the days together and all sense of time has left us. We could have been out here for days or months and we'd never know it. The biting cold prevents many men from sleeping and even our heaviest coats seem to fall short of keeping the chill at bay. Still, we are in surprisingly good spirits. The shanties the men sing are doing marvelously at keeping moral up and our food rations are holding longer than I had first thought when we pushed off from port all that time ago. I hope we discover the lost expedition soon, but a strange, dark part of my mind hopes we never do and that we remain at sea forever. Sometimes, during the quieter times, I ponder over this and believe it may come from a fear of the adventure ending, that once we make port finally, that will be it. Where that thought itself comes from, I can't be sure. I hear the men singing again as I write in my cabin. 'Northwest Passage' I believe it is called.

[@thehorselesshussar9813]

Do you know what day it is, Mr Young? It's a Wednesday....

[@Jessie_Helms]

That a real quote? If so, wow

[@amxelcbis4464]

@@Jessie_Helms sadly no, this song was written more than a century after it happened

[@jackt6453]

Your GF: You would rather spend 3 years searching for a lost British expedition with the boys than spending time with me? Me and the Boys: 0:00

[@gerogegerog5926]

The awnser is yes absolutely

[@kendall_knows_best2872]

Hahahhaah this deserves more likes

[@benno1934]

Is there anything the world more rewarding than struggling together with the boys? I think that's the essence of a man's being.

[@scrawn9721]

I wish i had this in my life.

[@josephlongbone4255]

That said, when you come back having eaten two of the boys, lost your toes to frostbite and your mind to scurvy and lead poisoning, you'll never leave her again...

[@jacowitz3957]

If the glaciers can speak, think of all the stories they can tell…

[@johncameron1935]

they'd say "it is cold as balls out here right now"

[@orangepekoe5243]

A suggestion, Boney was a warrior but you’re sitting in a Victorian tavern with the last few members of your battalion.

[@HistoryWhiz]

Could also use Over the Hills for that scenario too

[@cameronstrathdee1772]

No, no for this you'd want Kipling's "Last of the Light Brigade"

[@ashling3]

that would be awesome, you really are a man of taste

[@seronymus]

Orange Pekoe my beloved (Darjeeling and Rosehip first)

[@joshuadevenport7100]

This song is even more depressing when you know the man who discovered the fate of the Franklin expedition and discovered the Northwest Passage itself (John Rae) was dragged through the mud upon returning to Britain, literally cancelled. One of the toughest and most badass men in history.

[@brianhowe1982]

God rest the soul of Stan Rogers. May Canadian forever remember such a man.

[@SirHector1999]

Enough to make a grown man cry...straight up powerful man.

[@GabrielAugustomisterkakuna]

Bless all of the 129 souls that were lost in the expedition.

[@camerondempster4147]

This is not just a song about Franklin. Though he is the major theme. But 300 years goes back to Frobisher and others. Henry Kelsey, first European to see the Canadian Prairies. Mackenzie who, by canoe, was first overland to the Pacific. Fraser and his river. Then sums it up today, as the tardiest explorer driving across the prairies to the Pacific. It is a concise tale of the Eurpoean exploration of Canada. And a bloody good song.

[@Henrik041]

I agree. I had read that Stan Rogers composed this song as a tribute to his native country. He was driving across Canada from east to west, and after emerging from the rocks, hills, and trees of Ontario he found himself on the prairie - not even half-way across Canada to the Pacific. He was struck by just how bloody big the place is, and compared himself to the great explorers who had gone before.

[@alexanderblazina558]

"And if we find that hand, the reaching out one, we'll let you know" - Benton Fraser

[@ashkash8686]

Rest in peace to Sir John franklin, Francis Crozier, James Fitzjames and all others lost on their final journey.

[@jacobjerny7502]

“And so the old captain died, far beyond the reach of beast or man. He had no companions, but the ice and snow.” - a random quote I made up bc it sounded cool.

[@thespanishinquisition8617]

Maybe you should write the novel for that ending line

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

it's not that cool

[@ashkash8686]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 idk I think its pretty cool.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

@@ashkash8686 if you're 14 maybe

[@mikesoria3418]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 I agree, It's neither cool nor deep but it's a good line none-the-less.

[@wagglewiggle]

Stan rogers greatest Canadian musician to ever live. He went to soon.

[@beepboop7816]

Stan Rogers is a legend taken before his time. One of my ancestors was Elisha Kent Kane who was an American Mariner sent into the Arctic to search and rescue an English expedition that had gone missing. His crew and him were trapped in the ice for 2 years. The English sailors, John Franklin's expedition, were not found.

[@Halocon720]

When you’re looking for wrecks that the native people of the Arctic have known about for years but you refuse to ask them

[@FM_1819]

Well when they propose an alternative that is beyond disgusting (specially for the era), you kind of try to stick to hope

[@Halocon720]

@@FM_1819 I mean that they knew the location but the explorers never consulted them on that

[@FM_1819]

@@Halocon720 Oh, though you meant the cannibalism, but yeah, they should have trusted the people that had been living there for thousands of years, also they should have believed John Rae who actually asked them.

[@MrMobiusfan]

@@FM_1819 Add in that they told the truth. The bones that have been found have cut marks at the hands and feet and legs.

[@joshmcirish352]

No actually there were people that did ask the native Inuit, some expeditions may have not, but there were a good few that did.

[@furioussherman7265]

The Franklin Expedition: Proof of what happens when you don't listen to the locals even though they've survived in the most unforgiving land on Earth for thousands of years.

[@furioussherman7265]

@Zoomer Waffen Indeed, but if I had done it, I would've listened to the Inuit.

[@furioussherman7265]

@Zoomer Waffen I mean the same Inuit who've survived in the Arctic for over ten thousand years, you racist.

[@reasonablyserious]

@@furioussherman7265 tbf no one knows how they would've reacted given the circumstances. Saying, about 180 years later, this might've been a better method, doesn't mean you would've done it then, having grown up und lived in a wholly different world and experiencing it yourself rather than reading up on the subject.

[@furioussherman7265]

@Zoomer Waffen The Arctic is a place that can kill anyone, but not anyone can survive there like the Inuit have. The only dentskull here is you.

[@furioussherman7265]

@@reasonablyserious Even so, that doesn't mean you can't pass judgement on their actions. Franklin fucked up by not learning from the Inuit and paid for his mistake, but the racist views of his day and age doesn't absolve him of his sins, especially when you consider that contemporaries like John Rae DID learn from the Inuit and came back in one piece.

[@SaintSkillet]

Stan Rogers, you’ve done good sailor. Thank you for this matey.

[@stereodreamer23]

Interesting trivia--Stan Rogers never worked on a ship, worked on a farm, was a fisherman, or had any other job except as a musician. And yet, he penned some of the best songs on those topics ever written. He was, quite literally, the Canadian Shakespeare of the 20th Century. Anyone who disagree with that statement, I'll fight...

[@seveneighths1278]

@@stereodreamer23 I’ll hafta disagree with that. Mostly on account of Shakespeare not actually being an amazing writer. He had the style, but lacked the substance Stan Rogers had. Stan Rogers can tell a story through a song, and make it sound great while doing so. Shakespeare’s writing looks and sounds impressive, but he wasn’t exactly great at writing stories. Take a well-known one, Romeo and Juliet, for example. Romeo and Juliet is filled with plot holes and an overly obscured purpose or meaning. The storyline is contrived and even predictable at times. Most of it relies on poorly explained outside forces like the poison, though I suspect it to be yew poison. In the end, it just ends up unsatisfying. To summarize all of that, I find Stan Rogers to be far better than Shakespeare. Not to say Shakespeare was horrible in general, just that storytelling was definitely not his strong suit.

[@desertranger7575]

“CAPTAIN, ship stuck in the ice port side, sir it’s the terror, we found them sir”

[@GitHecct]

This was the first song I heard from Stan Rogers, and after weeks of listening to a Pandora station I made from him, I heard The Dreadnaughts' "Dear Old Stan", and I could feel my throat tighten when they mentioned him by his full name

[@lejammiedodgere]

He truly was gone too soon. I still haven't listened to 'Dear Old Stan', I think I'll have a look at it when I get the chance.

[@chrisscott6254]

Wasn’t sure if you could’ve out done your self with Bones in the Ocean, but yet, YOU HAVE! Damn it’s good

[@lejammiedodgere]

Haha, I'm glad you like it!

[@KidChardonnay]

Listen to this a lot, especially when you have a quiet moment after a long tiring day. It just hits a spot that not much other music can

[@lejammiedodgere]

Definitely!

[@inigoplateu4650]

I hope the crew can hear this song, wherever they are.

[@Piface2099]

RIP the man Stan Rogers, a life too short of time but a soul for all time

[@zachjollimore4339]

Bless your soul, you used the proper version. Your chariot in New Scotland awaits.

[@maclanewestbrook4176]

Finally northwest passage gets some love

[@sean4415]

I've been seeing everything that's going on in my life. I would've never thought I'd stumble upon this song and it given't me so much peace. Thank you. Thats all.

[@TheMobyNick]

Meanwhile, far off in the forward camp, a polar bear with a man's face is lowering Admiral Sir John Franklin, KCH FRS FLS FRGS, into an icy, nameless hole.

[@trige000]

Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea Westward from the Davis Strait 'tis there 'twas said to lie The sea route to the Orient for which so many died Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea Three centuries thereafter, I take passage overland In the footsteps of brave Kelsey, where his Sea of Flowers began Watching cities rise before me, then behind me sink again This tardiest explorer, driving hard across the plain Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea And through the night, behind the wheel, the mileage clicking west I think upon Mackenzie, David Thompson and the rest Who cracked the mountain ramparts and did show a path for me To race the roaring Fraser to the sea Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea How then am I so different from the first men through this way? Like them, I left a settled life, I threw it all away To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men To find there but the road back home again Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea Source: Musixmatch

[@jrmungandr]

PassAAAGE*, SavAAAGE*

[@Jessie_Helms]

Sad this isn’t a higher up comment

[@georgeofhamilton]

The formatting is a bit tough to read.

[@kennethschlegel870]

YES! Stan is finally getting some love

[@Folkmoot]

There's a show called Terror, which is based on a book, that's based on this... Really loved it

[@bourbonsteak]

This meme is going to introduce so many people to Stan Rogers' music for the first time!

[@spacejunk2186]

lol me

[@MrNU998]

Nearly brings me to tears to see that Stan Rogers is getting so much love out of the blue like this. Men like this are a rare breed

[@TheRedBaron1917]

God bless our beloved rear Admiral brave Sir John, Captains Crozier and Fitzjames and the 129 brave sailors and royal marines who sacrificed everything far from family and home in the ultimate adventure. May they rest in peace and may their names and legend never be forgotten and their sacrifices honoured. God save the Queen, long live the Empire, rule Britannia, that is all.

[@itsZach05]

As much as hate tha brits even I agree they deserve respect

[@carterjones8126]

As keeping with tradition, the sailors remains were removed, and laid to rest back home in Britain. Also, the gold on board was returned back the UK. The Inuit people were given the property of the wrecks.

[@spenceroreilly2922]

@@itsZach05 crozier was Irish.

[@WraithTheSlayer]

return back to 2021; A country where 13 y/o stab each other, living on benefits with their families and off their eldery's money. That's the britannia today, a sad pile of shit and spoiled brats without ambitions. Gravy and bread for all! Disgusting country, sad and lazy. I cannot believe this country was an empire. It's truly disrespectful towards their history.

[@callumwilliams1449]

@@WraithTheSlayer lol yep because that time when 13 year olds would be risking life and limb down the mines or in factories so their family can get a loaf of bread was so much better. Also, we live in one of the safest times in recorded history and have an unemployment rate of 4.9%. This is the time we live in, be patriotic toward your nation or don't, might I suggest you leave if the latter?

[@brassbolts4256]

Chrous: Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea; Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea. Westward from the Davis Strait 'tis there 'twas said to lie The sea route to the Orient for which so many died; Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones. (chorus) Three centuries thereafter, I take passage overland In the footsteps of brave Kelso, where his "sea of flowers" began Watching cities rise before me, then behind me sink again This tardiest explorer, driving hard across the plain. (chorus) And through the night, behind the wheel, the mileage clicking west I think upon Mackenzie, David Thompson and the rest Who cracked the mountain ramparts and did show a path for me To race the roaring Fraser to the sea. (chorus) How then am I so different from the first men through this way? Like them, I left a settled life, I threw it all away. To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men To find there but the road back home again. (chorus)

[@gabrielhuschenbeck5637]

the terror be gud show

[@stardragon7893]

That it do.

[@christophercolasurdo919]

Book was better, but that’s how it always goes.

[@lilygreene3789]

Yes! Northwest Passage is definitely one of my favorites from Stan... and I have a lot lol! Thank you for allowing more people the opportunity to hear his sorrowful baritone voice. :')

[@makaveli_9457]

Its really astounding what beautiful tones he manages to produce with his voice alone.

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

Wow. I heard this song on a Franklin documentary a handful of years ago and I never thought I'd hear it again. It was in the suggested videos while I was listening to Doodle let me go, which was featured in the Lighthouse. Thank you for uploading this.

[@ruben8865]

if it was'nt for that damn polar bear, he'd have lived

[@raptorfae.6645]

If anything this makes me imagine a sea shanty about The Shackleton expedition decades later. One where after years of being stranded on the other side of the world on frozen, inhospitable islands miraculously every man onboard their long-gone vessel managed to get home,only to be rounded up to go fight and die insignificantly on the western front of WW1. A sea shanty where,just this once, it might have been better off staying in the South Atlantic...

[@PepePundit]

Stan Rogers has so many excellent maritime songs. Mary Ellen Carter, Northwest Passage, Barretts Privateers, White Squall. By far one of my favourite artists of all time. RIP Stan Rogers

[@windows7x642]

There's some evidence that Captain Crozier and one other man made it 250 miles south of the last cairn the expedition built some years after they went missing, according to Inuit stories. May they rest in peace.

[@god-of-a-new-world7786]

Those boys deserved to come home...

[@cameronwooten1420]

i just randomly stumbled onto this but man, that song was absolutely amazing. Gives me chills.

[@Alone_unafraid24]

Remembering sad sea shanty night with the boys at college during COVID lockdowns. My how time flies, we disobeyed the instructions not to be in each others rooms, there were 12 of us each with a beer singing along to these things. 😂 as stressful and busy as those times were they were still simple and fun.

[@lordgiratna2078]

Roll Northumbria over a storm ambience would be beautiful like the other edits you've done

[@eyscot1374]

nice job man! luv u

[@lejammiedodgere]

Thanks broski!

[@ewanhogg3068]

Northwest Passage but you've found the Northwest Passage and you're covered in forks.

[@Trav117x]

Ice locked ships, scurvy, improper canned food, botulism and worst of all…..that damn man-bear-pig 😔😔😔

[@hahahajg]

This video introduced me to the discography of Stan Rogers. Thanks, mate.

[@aarondunne2655]

My god. I hadn't ever heard this song and I have goosebumps and the atmosphere is perfect. Thank you.

[@nullvoid3990]

The Terror 2018 is the best adaptation of this story ive ever seen!

[@coreyhead5777]

It’s WILD listening to this when you’re also looking at all the soup cans in your pantry.

[@agaggleofgage2605]

Stan Rogers makes me feel proud to be a Canadian and I'm not!

[@enigmaodell6806]

You make good stuff. That little extra effort of the atmospheric noises really sells the song better.

[@widgetfilms]

The best part of this trend is that people are discovering Stan Rogers.

[@tipptoggy]

Stan Roger's song is about having to leave Cape Breton is search of work out west, which he equates with the search for the North West Passage 3 centuries later he had to find his own North West Passage, this makes the song into a work of literature.

[@duglife2230]

I know the game was set before Franklin's expedition happened, but this song always gives me Assassin's Creed: Rogue vibes.

[@prestono7557]

Ikr!

[@MaxC_1]

I mean we had Halifax and a fair part of Canada so makes sense

[@bicheiroparadoxo4894]

I still miss exploring the cold north on that game. Thanks for the memories.

[@samueljonathan6101]

There was a mission that had you going to the northwest passage in AC3.

[@sadcowpoke2578]

Just going on a rabbit hole with these videos. Found much glory and happiness but bittersweet feelings. God speed gentlemen for our next journey

[@roxxram9151]

For a work based on a meme concept, this is actually really good and arguably an improvement on the original song itself.

[@raptor_zero9429]

This song is so haunting and sad once you know how the Franklin's expedition ended

[@matthew_thefallen]

I love this one, it has a special place in my heart. Freaking love Stan Rogers. Best folk singer in Canada, with Gordon Lightfoot of course.

[@cmco.8836]

This is my favorite way to listen to this classic. The environmental noises really add alot to the atmosphere

[@apropercuppa8612]

I just learned, coincidentally, that my nextdoor neighbour is Canadian and is in relation to one of the Canadians that went in search of the Franklin Expedition.

[@danielmichaelfleiss2141]

The Saddest Song On The Internet Ever…

[@jrmetmoi]

The last ever episode of ’Due South’ from back in the 90s

[@dunraven8168]

I love this song! So glad to see someone who appreciates these songs and the history behind them. I am a huge Stan Rogers fan, so you have made this a good day. Might I suggest The Mary Ellen Carter for the future? Keep up the good work, you've earned another sub!

[@motozealot5176]

Girls for summer break: "Lets go to florida! party!" Boys:

[@LonkinPork]

the perfect chaser after watching Wendigoon's video about the Franklin Expedition. the a capella recording of these songs lends so well to the ambient wind sounds

[@docrussian1806]

I love it! Could we see leave her Johnny next? I remember hearing it as part of an ac ost. Edit:punctuation

[@lejammiedodgere]

Always great to see you here, Doc, it's next on the list!

[@docrussian1806]

Yay! Can't wait!

[@Komotau4691]

With creaky and gurgle sounds maybe :D

[@alanhorton7300]

Northwest Passage but you're driving from Winnipeg to Vancouver.

[@Jessie_Helms]

It’s so perfect that History Buff’s video on The Terror is the top recommendation after this.

[@bennbastard5082]

Stan Rogers was the greatest man God has ever blessed this earth with

[@Mr9Guns]

RIP Stan Rogers and RIP Sir John Franklin and all the members of the ill fated expedition.

[@ceruleanzone2041]

"And if we do find his hand, the reaching out one...we'll let you know."

[@aslaamo1118]

God bless you lad. Also let's all take a moment to appreciate this guy goes through the comments and hearts each one.

[@Minecraftineer998]

All is well, lads. The terror is yet upon us, but brave we shall stand no matter the odds.

[@kingpinkoopa6218]

I dont know why but this song always gets me choked up boys

[@green3487]

Born to take the Northwest Passage Forced to work a mundane office job

[@edwardmeade]

This song is actually about the migration of out-of-work fishermen from the Canadian Maritimes to the Alberta oil fields in the 1970s and 80s when the cod fisheries collapsed. The other song he wrote, equally powerful, on this subject is The Idiot. Fifty years later a lot of people have forgotten this migration, but it affected some of Stan's family back in the Maritimes and was front of mind when he and others were writing songs in this genre. Stan was a master at inhabiting other people's minds and singing their songs. The point here is that the singer in heading west to a new country, new job, new culture, is stepping into the unknown just as much as McKenzie, Thompson or Franklin did in their day.

[@Henrik041]

With great respect, "Northwest Passage" is not the song you are referring to. The Stan Rogers song about displaced Maritimers out west was called "Free in the Harbour."

[@edwardmeade]

No, that's just another song on the same theme. He wrote several. "Free in the Harbour", "The Idiot" are just additional songs on the same theme. Having 3+ songs on the same theme doesn't invalidate the rest.@@Henrik041

[@davidec.4021]

Still the best to ever do this kind of videos.

[@professionaltrainenthusias4945]

you introduced me to stan rodgers, and the longest johns and i thank you a lot for that

[@Invictus828]

I love you added context series. Please make more.