#Canadian society

[gregor-samsung]

All My Puny Sorrows (Michael McGowan, 2021)

[fandom-queen-13]

rank the fanfic websites (part 1)

PLEASE REBLOG THIS, I WANT A LARGER AUDIENCE

[thepastisalreadywritten]

12 June 2024

Wreck hunters have found the ship on which the famous polar explorer Ernest Shackleton made his final voyage.

The vessel, called "Quest," has been located on the seafloor off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

Shackleton suffered a fatal heart attack on board on 5 January 1922 while trying to reach the Antarctic.

And although Quest continued in service until it sank in 1962, the earlier link with the explorer gives it great historic significance.

The British-Irish adventurer is celebrated for his exploits in Antarctica at a time when very few people had visited the frozen wilderness.

"His final voyage kind of ended that Heroic Age of Exploration, of polar exploration, certainly in the south," said renowned shipwreck hunter David Mearns, who directed the successful search operation.

"Afterwards, it was what you would call the scientific age. In the pantheon of polar ships, Quest is definitely an icon," he told BBC News.

The remains of the ship, a 38m-long schooner-rigged steamship, were discovered at the bottom of the Labrador Sea on Sunday by a team led by The Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS).

Sonar equipment found it in 390m (1,280ft) of water. The wreck is sitting almost upright on a seafloor that has been scoured at some point in the past by the passing of icebergs.

The main mast is broken and hanging over the port side, but otherwise, the ship appears to be broadly intact.

Quest was being used by Norwegian sealers in its last days. Its sinking was caused by thick sea-ice, which pierced the hull and sent it to the deep.

The irony, of course, is this was the exact same damage inflicted on Shackleton's Endurance - the ship he used on his ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917.

Fortunately, the crews of both Endurance, in 1915, and Quest, in 1962, survived.

Indeed, many of the men who escaped the Endurance sinking signed up for Shackleton's last polar mission in 1921-1922, using Quest.

His original plan had been to explore the Arctic, north of Alaska, but when the Canadian government withdrew financial support, the expedition headed south in Quest to the Antarctic.

The new goal was to map Antarctic islands, collect specimens and look for places to install infrastructure, such as weather stations.

Shackleton never made it, however, struck down by heart failure in the Port of Grytviken on the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia, the last stop before reaching the White Continent. He was just 47 years old.

After his death, Quest was involved in other important expeditions, including the 1930-31 British Arctic Air Route Expedition led by British explorer Gino Watkins, who himself tragically died aged 25 while exploring Greenland.

Quest was also employed in Arctic rescues and served in the Royal Canadian Navy during WWII, before being turned over to the sealers.

The RCGS team members carried out extensive research to find Quest's last resting place.

Information was gathered from ship's logs, navigation records, photographs, and documents from the inquiry into her loss.

The calculated sinking location in the Labrador Sea was pretty much spot on, although the exact co-ordinates are being held back for the time being.

A second visit to the wreck, possibly later this year, will do a more complete investigation.

"Right now, we don't intend to touch the wreck. It actually lies in an already protected area for wildlife, so nobody should be touching it," associate search director Antoine Normandin said.

"But we do hope to go back and photograph it with a remotely operated vehicle, to really understand its state."

Alexandra Shackleton is the explorer's granddaughter and was patron to the RCGS survey.

"I was thrilled, really excited to hear the news; I have relief and happiness and a huge admiration for the members of the team," she told BBC News.

"For me, this represents the last discovery in the Shackleton story. It completes the circle."

The explorer continues to spark interest more than a century after his death.

Hundreds of people visit his grave on South Georgia every year to pay their respects to the man known by his crews simply as "The Boss."

"Shackleton will live forever as one of the greatest explorers of all time, not just because of what he achieved in exploration but for the way he did it, and the way he looked after his men," said David Mearns.

"His story is timeless and will be told again and again; and I'm just one of many disciples who'll keep telling it for as long as I can."

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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.

He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A British Columbia lawyer alleged to have submitted bogus case law “hallucinated” by an AI chatbot is now facing both an investigation from the Law Society of B.C. and potential financial consequences.

Earlier this month, it was revealed that lawyer Chong Ke allegedly used ChatGPT to prepare legal briefs in a family law case at B.C. Supreme Court.

In reviewing the submissions, lawyers for the opposing side discovered that some of the cases cited in the briefs did not, in fact, exist.

Those lawyers are now suing Ke for special costs in the case.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[khaohomies]

Man, I loveee these boats!

[theglowsociety]

Happy Birthday To The Glow Society’s Blog Writer! 🥳

[naamahdarling]

Silly Game Time: WRONG ANSWERS ONLY! What do the letters in CIA stand for?

Conce bought Ibasicslly all the LSD ever And used it in buckwild mind control experiments and no this is not a conspiracy theory.

[indelen]

Given that in the books series Lockwood's last name is probably a reference to the narrator burdened by supernatural experiences in "Wuthering Heights",

And given that Kipps's last name is probably a reference to the narrator burdened by supernatural experiences in "The Woman in Black",

I submit to the approval of the Tumblr Midnight Society that Celia Lockwood's maiden name should be Celia Harker.

[supersoftly]

I was kinda hoping moving to a small town out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere would dissuade the crime, but I guess not since a store got robbed broad daylight last week by 3 gentlemen who have no fear of their Canadian peers knowing their faces. Can't wait until they find out about the cashier-less drugmart they just introduced.

[keptalivebymagic]

I love you, secondhand bookstores. I love you, $5 mass market paperbacks with creased spines. I love you, young adult hardcover in excellent condition for $12.

[gregor-samsung]

Il pleuvait des oiseaux [And the Birds Rained Down] (Louise Archambault, 2019)

[the-most-sublime-fool]

wow so much has changed since 1933!!! thank god the struggles of the great depression no longer hold any relevance in today's world 💖

[wheresurboytonighthelookslikeenj]

there's a certain misery in watching a cop show trying to be progressive prevented from ever reaching that goal by its very nature; an irony not only in the show itself, as it is built upon the oppression it tries to comment on and therefore restricted in whatever message it attempts to convey by the established status quo being unable to be changed, but in the viewer, who continues to watch and even hope despite knowing the show can never reach the ideals it presents. i am tantalus in the pool. a tragedy worthy of the greeks.

[thedeafprophet]

the thing about having a disability from a young age is that memory is fickle, and sometimes my parents will talk and ill learn new aspects in the ways my public school tried to fuck me over as a kid

[oldshowbiz]

1972.

Alan Stang, editor of the John Birch Society magazine American Opinion, claimed Canada was a Communist dictatorship run by homosexuals.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is “Prove all things and hold fast that which is good” and of the other “Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old.”

- William Osler

Osler, a Canadian physician and one of the founding professors of the John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, was playing on words from what was written in the bible, 1 Thessalonians 5:21: “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.“