Generations ago, Kóogháa Nélíní was a gathering place. The Tagish Kwan of what’s now the southern Yukon would travel here from up and down the river, paddling canoes or poling rafts to where the current narrowed through high basalt cliffs and turned frothy as it cascaded over the rocky floor.
Under bright summer skies, the Tagish Kwan would spear salmon close to shore in the shallow sections of the rapids and hang their catch to dry on the banks. The smell of campfire smoke hung in the air as moose and bears wandered through the forest lining the cliffs.
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A digital print from the artist Alessia Pelonzi depicting Gordon as John Weekes in The Terror.
Dundee actor Gordon Morris has been chipping away at the city’s links with Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition in 1845.
Gordon, from Douglas, plays John Weekes, a carpenter on board HMS Erebus, in the supernatural drama The Terror which is coming to BBC Two and iPlayer.
The series centres on the disastrous attempt by the crews of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to discover a sea route through the Canadian Arctic to the Orient, with both ships becoming icebound in the Canadian Arctic’s Victoria Strait and the entire 129-man expedition perishing.
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