'The Falls of Wilberforce, estimated at 250 feet high' mb-height 5463 9th August 1951

9th August 1951

in need of a haircut

Brendan Batson and Cyrille Regis

The barber's boy has dropped wig boxes marked Dr Rock

'The Falls of Wilberforce, estimated at 250 feet high' mb-height 5463 9th August 1951On the gruelling land journey back to Fort Enterprise, during which John Franklin and his men were reduced to eating their own boots, they discovered the Wilberforce Falls on the Hood River. John Franklin's expedition of 1819 22 travelled via the Coppermine River to map the Canadian Arctic coast, as part of efforts to find the fabled North West Passage. Illustration from Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, by John Franklin (London,