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Daily Mail (London), December 1929. Diary extracts from Edgar Christian. (Reprinted in Toronto Daily Star, December 28, 1929.)
See "Arctic's ruthlessness is starkly disclosed in diary of its victim ..."
* Dewar, Kenneth M. "I found the bodies of the Hornby party." Canadian Geographic. 97(1) (August-September 1978): 18-23.
Dewar was at McGill University doing post-graduate work in 1928, also with the Nipissing Mining Company, led by H.S. Wilson.
Douglas, George (1875-1963). Lands forlorn: the story of an expedition to Hearn's Coppermine / George Douglas. New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1914.
Trent University Archives has the George Douglas papers, 79-002 and 90-008 fond. See correspondence with Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1939 and 1950, on Douglas' annotations in his copy of Unflinching. (See also Finnie (Canada), p.115; Hornby and Douglas explored together, Coppermine area 1912-1913; Pelly (Thelon), p.viii, p.56 on Douglas.)
* Duggan, Colleen. "Profilers' picks [review of Cold burial: a true story of endurance and Disaster / Clive Powell-Williams]." Academia. 2(10), April 2002. Site: http://www.ybp.com/academia/ProfilersPicksApr02.htm (Viewed Feb. 22, 2003, not working 2005)
* Edwards, J. Ralph. J. Ralph Edwards photographs, 1930-1934: an inventory, N91-004. Yellowknife, NWT: Northwest Territories Archives, February, 1991. Site: http://pwnhc.learnnet.nt.ca/research/findingaids/N-1991-004.pdf (Viewed Feb. 22, 2003)
0011: [Graves of Christian, Hornby, and Adlard.] [On reverse:] Harold E. C. Adlard died 4-5-27, John Hornby 16-4-27, found in July 1928 on Thelon River in the Barrens, 60 miles from the confluence with the Hanbury. Hornby. Forks -- Thelon & Hanbury rivers. [Album page titled:] Taltson River --1931.
* Eggleston, Wilfrid. "Mounties' patrol finds that Hornby died first: diary found and gives clear idea of doomed party's experiences." Toronto Daily Star, March 4, 1930, p.33.
"Mr. Hornby had been the first to die, then Mr. Adlard, and Mr. Christian succumbed last ..."
* "Explorers to rest at scene of death: Hornby and companions will probably be buried in North, inquest is unlikely." Globe (Toronto), August 17, 1928, p.2.
* Finch, David; Raffan, James. [R.M. Patterson: a life of great adventure]. Beaver. 81(6) (December 2001/January 2002 ): 47-48.
"Tangential references to other iconic characters like Albert Faille and John Hornby add colour ..."
* Finnie, Richard. Canada moves North / Richard Finnie. New York: Macmillan Company, 1943. 227 p.
Passing mention of Jack Hornby: "The next scientific expedition to Great Slave Lake ... and headed by his cousin, George M. Douglas [1911] ... During the winter they had as neighbors ... John Hornby, who with two companions starved to death on the Thelon River in 1927 ... Hornby joined the Douglas brothers and accompanied them on a spring and early summer journey to the Coppermine." p.115
* Finnie, R.S. "Guy Houghton Blanchet (1884-1966)." Arctic. 38(4) (December 1985): 342-343. Site: http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/scripts/minisa.dll/144/proe/proarc/se+arctic,+v.+38,+no.++4,+Dec.+1985,%20*?COMMANDSEARCH (Viewed Feb. 1, 2003)
Blanchet and Hornby crossed paths several times, and Blanchet tried to discourage Christian from going north.
* Flosdorf, Jim. "Poems: from the Soper River." [Troy, NY: Jim Flosdorf, 2000?] Site: http://www.sage.edu/hvwg/Poems.html (Viewed Feb. 22, 2003)
"Reflections on Having Returned from the Arctic"
Land of death, stone, and caribou bones
where somehow, something green clings
to a rock or crevice--
and graves are piles of rocks
at best. Their journal in a woodstove,
land like this claimed Hornby, Adlard, and Christian,
lost Franklin and his men."
* French, William. "Arctic epics etched in ice." Globe and Mail, June 29, 1982, p.15.
Comments on Adlard "a greenhorn odd-jobber" and Christian's diary Death in the barren ground, 1980.
* French, William. "Northern death-diary an epic Canadian tale." Globe and Mail, June 5, 1980, p.17.
Review of Death in the barren ground by Edgar Christian, edited by George Whalley.
* "George Whalley: remembances." American Review of Canadian Studies. 22(4) (Winter 1992): 584-585.
* Georgia. "A northern feast sauced up for southern consumption. But northerners and southerners will see different things in each of these stories." Globe and Mail, February 14, 1981, p.E16.
Review of Stories from the Canadian North edited by Muriel Whitaker. "In 'The Last Journey,' George Whalley has maintained the business-journal entry tone of the 1926 starvation diary of John Hornby's 18-year-old nephew, Edgar Christian."
* Goldstein, Michael; Melissa Parker, Heather Sutton, Herman Senter. Hanbury - Thelon River Expedition, July 7 - August 1, 1999. Site: http://www.geocities.com/mgoldst/thelon.htm (not working 2005)
Included photographs of Hornby Point: Hornby, Adlard, and Christian's graves from 1927.
* "Hermit of Arctic braved all terrors of the north: John Hornby finds last resting place in Great Barren Lands." Toronto Daily Star, October 23, 1929, p.3.
Hoare, William (Billy) H.B. Conserving Canada's musk-oxen, being an account of an investigation of Thelon Game Santuary, 1928-29, with a brief history of the area and an outline of known facts regarding the musk-ox / William H.B Hoare. H.B Ottawa: Canada Dept. of Interior, North West Territories and Yukon Branch, 1930.
* Hoare, W.H.B. Journal of a barrenlander: W.H.B. Hoare, 1928-1929 / William H.B Hoare. Edited and annotated by Sheila C. Thomson [his daughter]; with early mapping of Campbell and Smart Lakes, N.W.T. by Kenneth L. Buchan. Ottawa: S.C. Thomson, 1990. 186 p.
See p.141: "A Mr. Hoarne left a note on the door of the hut ... dated July 22, 1929, just before Trundel arrived for bodies." Hoare, travelling with Jack Knox, met Trundle in Resolution, February 15, 1928 on way in for Hornby, p.137; August 1928 in Thelon (see also Pelly (Thelon) p.54,72,159); saw Christian's body in cabin, May 13 and July 22, 1929.
* Hoffer, Maxine. "Satellite found: diary of tragedy recalled." Globe and Mail, March 4, 1978, p.7.
"Mention was made of Hornby's two companions, who, with him, died of starvation in that area."
* Hornby, John. "Wild life in the Thelon River area, Northwest Territories, Canada." Canadian Field Naturalist. 48(7) (October 1934): 105-111.
* Horton, Marc. "Fascination with the north led to cold, dark death: how one man's conceited arrogance resulted in three lonely graves by a remote river. Edmonton Journal, March 10, 2002, Final Edition, p.D10.
On Clive Powell-Williams Cold burial: a true story of endurance and disaster.
* Horton, Marc. "Into the Barrens [Cold burial: a true story of endurance and disaster]." Edmonton Journal, March 6, 2002, Final Edition, p.C1.
"There is a strange comment in the last note about love between two men, and I initially thought it might be something homosexual, but I realized it was really quite different," said Powell-Williams. It was a case of simple hero worship ..."
* Hunter, Bob. "The Thelon River expedition: taking nature for granted." Toronto: Pulse24.com, [2001] Site: http://www.pulse24.com/Thelon/20010726-001/page.asp (Viewed Mar. 25, 2002)
"Whatever his virtues of courage, Hornby was a risk-taker whose hubris eventually did him in, and cost the lives of two innocent young men who trusted that he knew what he was doing -- when events proved, that he didn't."
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