Emily Vancouver, Colombie-Britannique

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Projet: Search for the Northwest Passage

My project, “Search for the Northwest Passage”, examines the history and importance of the icy channels situated in Canada’s chilly Arctic. Explorers searched for the Northwest Passage for hundreds of years, because Europeans hoped to use it as a faster trading route to get to Asia. My video is highlights the HMS St. Roch, the first boat to travel through the Northwest Passage in just a season, which is now docked in my hometown, Vancouver, BC.

Quelles sont les informations les plus importantes à retenir de ta recherche que tu aimerais partager avec les autres Canadiens ?

After learning about the extensive search for the Northwest Passage, it surprised me that many explorers, from Christopher Columbus to Henry Larsen to Sir John Franklin, were brave enough to try their hand at locating the fabled passage even though many sailors, even the bravest and strongest, didn’t survive. I was impressed that these explorers were willing to set off on a voyage when they hardly knew which direction they should be sailing in.

Quelle est la chose la plus intéressante ou surprenante que tu as appris en préparant ton projet et en effectuant ta recherche ?

I think my project really shows evidence of how much global warming is affecting the Earth. Many people probably don’t know how much ice is melting because of factors such as pollution. I hope Canadians will realize that greenhouse gases are severely affecting our Arctic and that we should be careful about the energy we use.

Peux-tu comparer ta vie aujourd'hui avec celle de celui ou ceux qui sont présentés dans ton projet ?

My research really opened my eyes to the fact that the world wasn’t always the way it is now, where we can fly a plane within hours to our destination instead of taking months to sail overseas. Today, you can just open an atlas to look at the world, whereas I learned that years ago much of the world was unknown outside of your own country. Many of the explorers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries only knew what their own country was like, compared to today, where people are exposed to cultures from all around the world.