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What famous explorer played hockey in the Arctic?

A recent discovery in a letter from British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin to Roderick Murchison, dated November 6, 1825, records: “Till the snow fell the game of hockey played on the ice was the morning’s sport.” Franklin’s men were wintering during his second Arctic expedition at Fort Franklin (now called Deline) in Canada’s Northwest Territories on the shore of Great Bear Lake in October 1825. However, it isn’t clear if the people participating in this activity were wearing skates. More likely, they were playing field hockey. Still, that doesn’t stop Deline today from laying claim to hosting the very first “hockey” game in North America. As for Franklin, on his final expedition in 1845 to locate the Northwest Passage to Asia, he and his men disappeared in Canada’s Far North. They were last seen by Europeans on July 26, 1845. It appears Franklin perished on June 11, 1847, off King William Island in the Arctic Ocean.

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