This work by Charles Comfort displays perhaps the more adventurous potential of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s history. The 1845 Franklin expedition was an attempt by Sir John Franklin to traverse the High Arctic, a journey that met with failure after the two ships became icebound in the Victoria Strait in what is now Nunavut, eventually killing the entire crew. The expedition’s mysterious but stark failure was notorious among the nineteenth-century public and spurred several search parties over the following years. In 1854, John Rae, a Scottish explorer (here rendered in a very Scottish tam-o’-shanter) and a surgeon working under the HBC, received information from Inuit hunters near Pelly Bay that confirmed the location of the doomed Franklin expedition, along with material goods including a gold hatband and an engraved silver plate. Here, in Comfort’s detailed recreation of the encounter, Rae has been given a silver spoon, while an Inuit guide in snow goggles points the way to the remains of the wrecked party.