>A little piece from Thursday's Scotsman (not stovies). Jan > >FACT OF THE DAY > > >Scottish explorer John Rae was born today in Orkney in 1813. Rae is famous >for discovering the Canadian arctic Northwest passage and evidence of the >fate of previous explorer John Franklin. Rae developed a profound respect >for Inuit custom and practice during his arctic journeys but was >castigated on his return to Britain for revealing that Franklin's >expedition had turned to cannibalism. ><http://heritage.scotsman.com/cfm/heritagenews/headlines.cfm>Read more >news on Scotland's heritage here Jan Nary 31 Leybourne St, Chelmer Queensland 4068 Publicist & Journalist National Folk Festival Publicist <http://www.folkfestival.asn.au/>http://www.folkfestival.asn.au/ Co-host Acoustic Harvest Bay FM 100.3 <http://www.bayfm.org.au/>http://www.bayfm.org.au/ tel. 44 7 3379 4178 fax 447 3278 2360 mob. 0429 898 328 UK 07905 976 173

yes, john rae is the world's most successful arctic explorer http://www.geocities.com/wjis21/index.html these pages list his travels goononya, bill Bill Irvine, victoria bc canada alternate email: wji@islandnet.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Nary" <jnarypr@gil.com.au> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:17 PM Subject: [<orcadia>] Fwd: Scotsman.com News Thursday 30 September 2004 > > >A little piece from Thursday's Scotsman (not stovies). > Jan > > > > >FACT OF THE DAY > > > > > >Scottish explorer John Rae was born today in Orkney in 1813. Rae is famous > >for discovering the Canadian arctic Northwest passage and evidence of the > >fate of previous explorer John Franklin. Rae developed a profound respect > >for Inuit custom and practice during his arctic journeys but was > >castigated on his return to Britain for revealing that Franklin's > >expedition had turned to cannibalism. > ><http://heritage.scotsman.com/cfm/heritagenews/headlines.cfm>Read more > >news on Scotland's heritage here > > > Jan Nary 31 Leybourne St, Chelmer Queensland 4068 > Publicist & Journalist > National Folk Festival Publicist > <http://www.folkfestival.asn.au/>http://www.folkfestival.asn.au/ > Co-host Acoustic Harvest Bay FM 100.3 > <http://www.bayfm.org.au/>http://www.bayfm.org.au/ > tel. 44 7 3379 4178 fax 447 3278 2360 mob. 0429 898 328 UK 07905 976 173 > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >