Hey, I love the content! But one suggestion I have is to give us the dates that these explorers conducted their expeditions in, it would help to contextualize the history better.
Canadian here. I would recommend listening to the song - "Northwest Passage" by Stan Rogers. Canadian classic about this exploration. Also - shout out to Inuit. What an amazing society to be able to exist in such difficult territory. PS: Northwest Passage is obviously Canadian waters. Shut up Russia and USA.
@@travistucker1033 Name me one location where water between two close U.S islands or pieces of land are considered international waters. I'll wait. You expect Canada to sit back, accept international waters, and then let foreign militaries such as Russia or China send submarines within a few kilometers of its territorial land?
The northwest passage is obviously Canadian. It is literally between OUR islands! It is literally CANADIAN LAND! Even if i wasn't Canadian my point still stands
Recently came across your Jonny Harris video, I then went on to watch all of your videos, now I subscribed. Really love the videos, it's insane for me how a channel can have such good quality from the get go, especially when comparing this to myself.
I've watched many of your videos so far, please make more of them ! I really like how you simplify the complex while also showing the complexity of a topic ! great content
I actually knew the story of the second guy pretty well. There was a documentary in the 2000s made on him that I saw in national geographic (or some similar TV channels). I think I was like 12 y/o at the time. I was fascinated by the story but it gave me nightmares for a few nights because stories about being frozen and lead poisoning (I was young and naïve, you know 🤡) But anyways, great video as usual 😁
I really like your work, I got a good feeling you'll do well on this platform. Only thing I'd recommend to you is to change the audio for your camera, perhaps get a cover or isolate the sound of the room
I don't know how eating canned food in other parts of the world wouldn't also lead to lead poisoning if we are going to say they died from lead poisoning. Everyone had lead in their canned foods. Not just artic explorers. Do we have people dying of lead poisoning during sieges? Or anywhere else?
Great video! I also feel like an important portion of the quest for the NW Passage that wasn't mentioned (for brevity of the video I imagine) are all the attempts that were made by explorers and fur traders to find a route not exclusively through the Arctic Ocean, but through the lakes and rivers of Canada. Alexander Mackenzie is definitely among the most notable badasses of the time who was the first to make it to the Pacific via a land route (I'd rank him alongside Amundsen although their exploits were quite different).
Your comments on the Franklin expedition clothing seems a bit of a jump. Being European the cold wasn't a brand new thing to them. But even the Artic wasn't that really new to the men on Franklin expedition. You can look up what people brought abord, Harry D. S. Goodsir (Assistant surgeon) being a prime example. Seal skin and flannel make up a lot of the orders. Really it was less what they wore and their near constant exposure and food poisoning.
Your videos are just great, really what I was looking for as a map and history enjoyer. Also I like how talking about Hudson you explored the origins of the river, the bay, and NYC. Couple of things though: 1) I understand that not putting dates has its advantages as people has to search them and not just passively watch the video, but in a serious history video I believe you should put them. 2)You may also put description of the pictures you use (I refer particularly to those of the frozen men) Last thing, could you recommend some sources to find historical maps like those you used in the video?
With Canadiens nuclear abilities and shipyards, they could build 7 icebreakers, make partnerships with the usa and greenland and keep the passage lanes clear all year.
The first ship to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage was the brig Octavian. Unfortunately, the crew didn't live to tell about it. They froze to death thirteen years earlier in 1762. A British whaler discovered her in 1775 and sent a boarding party to the Octavian.
I just pressed the play button and I have a feeling we're going to discuss the Franklin Expedition and Roald Amundsen. After all, it is the Northwest Passage, we're discussing here. Let's see if I turn out to be right.
I think the Norwegian Vikings went through the northwest passage first :) It was 2 degrees warmer during the Viking age and the only ones crazy enough to try it first. There are stories about Vikings in the great lakes. What can be proven is another thing. Then again lots of things in these documentaries cannot really be proven.
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“They dead. Cannibals too!” “I do say, these natives know nothing about Proper English Society. A gentleman would rather die than EAT OTHER PEOPLE” Meanwhile, bodies lie frozen and chopped up
A small nit pic. I'm here from the Johnny Harris video and if you are going to critique other youtubers. Maybe take this more seriously. The Hudson River and Hudson Bay were named after Henry Hudson. The jokes you used don't really allude to that at all. You could talk about COPIED from wiki Prior to European exploration, the river was known as the Mahicannittuk by the Mohicans, Ka'nón:no by the Mohawks, and Muhheakantuck by the Lenape.
They wanted an alternate route to Asia by going NorthWest instead of NorthEast so why didn't they go SouthEast because a Northwest route to Asia would require travelling through Atlantic and Pacific oceans etc. Even though their goal was Asia a NorthWest passage if possible is going backwards because America is the advancement. There were European and Dutch in USA as early as 1000AD-1200AD but there were other cultures already here BC. New York has its name because it's New YoLk as in egg and cradle of civilization. I think future generations think they are better equipped so they try challenges but come to similar conclusions. I think those who tried to conquer America died in strange bizarre ways.
You left out the reason that the United States and Canada are in dispute over this area: under international law, waterways that link seas are considered to be open to international shipping. (For example, it would be considered an act of war for Denmark to close access to the Baltic Sea.) The Canadians have long claimed their Arctic territories as "internal waters" that are not normally navigable, a claim that some dispute because of its extremely low population.
If this topic interests anyone there's a show(and a book) called The Terror which is excellent. Also the channel History Buffs did a video on it as well.
There is video by Wendover that talks about the geographical difficulties about Russia, and the possibilities about new trade routes with the evaporation of the poles. From that there is also a lot of talk about the conflict of the Artic both as a trade route and a resource hub by the oil and gas that lies beneath.
I've once seen this dutch movie about the guys that tried the trip the other way around. Kinda gives an idea about how crazy it was what these people were doing
These are high quality videos, and I think you're going to get more audience, especially amongst people fleeing 'woke' and entertaining/misleading youtube historians. Good job.
I’m going to nitpick your video since I just watched your Johnny Harris video on historical accuracy (Great video by the way, fair criticisms and not like a poorly justified personal attack like the guy that criticized the world economic forum sponsored video that Johnny made). At about 1:15 you say that the Inuit have been in the Canadian Arctic for thousands of years. This is not true. They’ve only recently arrive circa 1000 years ago from Siberia and displaced an earlier culture called the Dorset. They are genetically distinct and are thought to come from a much earlier migration a few thousand years ago. Anywho, just my two cents because historical accuracy is important! Maybe the Inuit displacement of the Dorset was its own kind of colonialism back in the day 🤔
This feels like it was picked straight out of a Johnny Harris video. I like the format, and can clearly see the inspiration, but don't be scared to experiment and explore your style.
