Stone-built cairns were vital to communicating and surviving in northern landscapes
The MMA’s museum ship CSS Acadia on her maiden voyage in northern Labrador, 1913.
Greenlanders show their kayaking skill in this image by Nova Scotian photographer Alexander Sutherland
Sealers haul their ships through icy seas
The Great Auk, a species hunted to extinction along northern coasts
William Edward Parry, Halifax-based naval officer who nearly transited the Northwest Passage in 1819
Sydney, N.S., crowds greet Robert Peary’s return from his self-proclaimed discovery of the North Pole in 1909
