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	Encyclopedia: John Rae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Rae is a novelist and former headmaster of Westminster School.
		The Custard Boys is a British novel by John Rae, focusing on the lives of children in a small village in England during World War II dealing with an influx of war refugees.
		John Rae (September 30, 1813 â“ July 22, 1893) was a Scottish explorer of the Arctic.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Rae (879 words)

	NZFPM - Flight Lieutenant John Donald Rae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jack Rae was born in Auckland on 15 January 1919 and prior to entry into the RNZAF in September 1940 worked as a clerk.
		Rae flew a Spitfire off the American aircraft carrier USS Wasp on 20 April 1942 to join 249 Squadron at Takali in Malta.
		After a month Rae rejoined his unit and by the time he was posted back to the United Kingdom in August 1942 he had increased his personal tally by four enemy aircraft destroyed and another shared, four more probably destroyed and four others damaged.
	www.nzfpm.co.nz /aces/rae.htm (488 words)

	John RAE and Margaret O'NEIL
		iii) Roseanne Victoria RAE was born on 17 Oct. 1889 and was baptised on 31 Oct. 1889 in Thurso, Quebec (3).
		John married Lucie CHARETTE on 7 Sept. 1914 in Masson, Quebec (5).
		According to the 1901 census, John was born on 8 June 1858 in Germany and was Lutheran.
	www.bytown.net /rae.htm (1716 words)

	Orkneyjar - Dr John Rae - Orkney's greatest unsung hero
		As a boy, Rae would accompany his father in the sail from their home on the shore of the Bay of Ireland to the HBC offices in Stromness.
		Rae abandoned the search for Franklin in 1854 after he learned the expedition had ended in disaster and that the last survivors had been forced to resort to cannibalism.
		Rae wrote: "Some of the bodies had been buried (probably those of the first victims of famine); some were in a tent or tents; others under the boat, which had been turned over to form a shelter, and several lay scattered about in different directions."
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/historicalfigures/johnrae/index.html (1760 words)

	JOHN RAE
		John Rae was born at Footdee, a suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, June 1, 1796.
		According to the "Dictionary of American Biography", young Rae studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and, though he was afterwards known as Dr. Rae, he did not take his medical degree because he was "discouraged from presenting his inaugural dissertation which embodied a revolutionary view of physiology".
		In December, 1837, Dr. Rae joined the Hamilton Volunteers and went to Toronto and to the Niagara frontier to fight in the rebellion against the British government in Canada.
	hml.org /mmhc/mdindex/rae.html (779 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Rae (Geography, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		A physician in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company in N Canada, Rae made (1846–47) a journey of exploration from Fort Churchill to the Gulf of Boothia, which he described in his Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea (1850).
		In 1847 he joined Sir John Richardson's expedition in search of the lost party of Sir John Franklin, the British explorer; later (1851) he commanded a search party that crossed the tundra and explored part of Victoria Island.
		Rae was an important innovator in arctic travel, coping with the unforgiving environment by adapting techniques developed by indigenous peoples, e.g., snowshoes, fur clothing, igloos, and dog sleds.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Rae-John.html (278 words)

	The Hall of Clestrain - Orkney Boat Museum - Dr John Rae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born on the 30th of September 1813, at the Hall of Clestrain, Orphir, in Orkney, John Rae was the fourth son of John Rae (Senior) and Margaret Campbell Rae.
		Rae adapted well to the harsh conditions of the region by adopting their survival methods and he became an expert canoeist, hunted and fished, and learned how to live off the land - he also became an expert in snowshoeing.
		John Rae continued to set out on expeditions - in 1860 he was employed to carry out the land part of a survey for a projected telegraph line from Great Britain to North America via the Faeroes, Iceland and Greenland.
	www.spacemonkeylab.com /clestrain/history/john_rae.php (960 words)

	Gauntlet Buzz - McGoogan leaves John Rae a mystery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Instead it's the story of John Rae, a Scottish Hudson's Bay Company officer who explored and lived in the harsh wilderness with more successes than most.
		Rae discovered the last link of the Northwest Passage but was swept aside in the history books due to the smear campaign of Franklin's widow.
		The snippets from Rae's journal never convey Rae's true nature or the hardships of the Arctic.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~gauntlet/eg/eg2/20010531/buzz/buzz04.html (507 words)

	Artist Showcase - Phil Bancroft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Rae's Celtic Feet are six musicians who have loyalty to tradition mixed with a passion to experiment and improvise creating a new sound to accompany a new millennium.
		John Rae is an accomplished jazz drummer who has been studying traditional fiddle for almost ten years, and with this new group, presents a new collection of compositions that incorporate his knowledge of traditional and jazz music.
		John Rae is the drummer with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and one of the founding members of the Scottish Composer's Jazz Ensemble.
	www.cabermusic.com /asjr.htm (398 words)

	John Rae -- Arctic Explorer and HA Member
		Rae was born on 30 September 1813 near Stromness, on the windswept Orkney Islands in the north of Scotland.
		In 1848 he accompanied Sir John Richardson on a search for the lost Sir John Franklin expedition; and in 1851 searched the western, southern and eastern shores of Victoria and Wollaston islands, charted some 630 miles of unknown territory, and found pieces of wood that were probably parts of Sir John Franklin's vessels.
		Rae was the author of a Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847 (London, 1850).
	nebula.on.ca /hamiltonassoc/jr_intro.htm (477 words)

	Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae,
		Rae prepared himself by snowshoeing 700 miles back to Moose Factory and in the two years that followed he learned to use a sextant and the art of surveying.
		Rae traveled north along the coast of Boothia and discovered that King William Land was an island and that the strait separating it from the mainland – now known as Rae Strait – was the last piece in the Northwest Passage puzzle which Europeans had been trying to solve since the 17th century.
		Rae eventually received credit and a reward for discovering the fate of Franklin but he was denied a knighthood, a honour bestowed on many lesser men in the history of Arctic exploration.
	www.ric.edu /rpotter/fatal_passage.html (1793 words)

	Library of Economics and Liberty: Biographies in Brief
		John Elliot Cairnes, Irish economist, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford, was a follower of Ricardo and Mill.
		John Bates Clark, American economist, was the first to develop marginal productivity theory, using it to explore the distribution of income between returns to labor and capital in a market economy.
		John Milton, English poet, historian, and essayist, preferred poetry but later in life was drawn to publish pamphlets and works defending religious and civil liberty, freedom of the press, and practical reforms.
	www.econlib.org /library/briefbios.html (3890 words)

	John Rae
		RAE, John, explorer, born in Clestrain House, in the Orkney islands, 30 September, 1813.
		Rae studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1829 till 1833, when he was graduated, entered the service of the Hudson bay company as surgeon, and lived at Moose fort from 1835 till 1845, making many explorations in British America.
		In 1848 he accompanied Sir John Richardson in a search for Sir John Franklin along the coast from Mackenzie river to Coppermine river, and in 1850 was placed in charge of a similar expedition by the Hudson bay company.
	www.famousamericans.net /johnrae (722 words)

	Press Release: Sister Genevieve by John Rae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the surface, John Rae and Sister Genevieve seemed to have little in common other than the fact that they were both involved in the education of young people.
		The more Rae learned about the impact "the Troubles" had on St. Louise's-the fathers and brothers killed or imprisoned, the senior girls who joined the IRA, the violence of the streets where the girls lived-the more he began to appreciate what a remarkable person Sister Genevieve was.
		John Rae, who knew Sister Genevieve since 1987, is an acclaimed novelist and historian, and was the distinguished headmaster of Westminster School from 1970 to 1986.
	www.twbookmark.com /jrun/books/62/0446528242/press_release.html (974 words)

	John Rae
		John Rae went to school from when he was 15 years old, till he was 21 years of age (1829-1835).
		Rae received the degree of LL.D from the University of Edinburgh and that of M.D. from McGill collage,Montreal in 1880.
		Rae was also a member of the Natural history society of that city and of the other distinguished societies.Rae later retired at London.Before Rae died,he left some instructions where he wanted to be buried, he wanted to be buried in St..Magnus’s Cathedral,Orkney.John Rae died in London in 1893.
	www.k12.nf.ca /perlwin/John%20Rae.html (483 words)

	John Rae -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Rae (September 30, 1813 – July 22, 1893) was a (The dialect of English used in Scotland) Scottish (Someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)) explorer of the (A waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow) Arctic.
		Rae was born at the Hall of Clestrain in the parish of Orphir in the (An archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland) Orkney Islands.
		In 1853, he was involved in exploring King William's Land, and made contact with the (A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')) Inuit.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_rae.htm (364 words)

	Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was easier for the outraged British to claim that Rae was a liar or a fool and that the Inuit had either murdered the Franklin crews or selfishly hogged all the caribou to themselves and declined to help the starving explorers.
		John Rae was a departure from the usual explorer of the Victorian age.
		Jane Franklin, Sir John's quasi-widow [she refused to admit her husband's death for years], irked by the possibility her husband had turned to cannibalism in extremity, actively challenged many of Rae's accomplishments.
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	Fatal Passage: The True Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the spring of 1854, John Rae, a Scottish immigrant to Canada, led a small party of explorers across the Boothia Peninsula to map the missing link in the fabled Northwest Passage.
		McGoogan has written an excellent biography of John Rae that conveys not only the struggles that the explorer went through to find the ill-fated Franklin expedition, but also the scientific banishment that he suffered when he reported the bizarre circumstances of their deaths.
		Rae, an outdoorsman and naturalist, was commissioned to explore the shores of the vast Arctic waters, searching for the last, elusive connection that would allow sailing ships to navigate from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.
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	Rae, John -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Rae was educated in classics, mathematics, and medicine at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and he distinguished himself as an inventor and natural scientist as well as an economist.
		The end of the Napoleonic Wars had left the British navy relatively unemployed, and the British government, spurred by the enthusiasm of Sir John Barrow, second secretary to the admiralty, was persuaded to equip a whole series of large naval expeditions for the discovery of the Northwest Passage.
		John Herschel discovered 525 star clusters and nebulae not recorded by his father, and he made the first telescopic survey of the southern heavens.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9062440?tocId=9062440 (637 words)

	JOHN RAE - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN RAE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dr Rae attributed much to his success in Arctic travel to his adoption of the methods of the Eskimo, a people whom he had studied very closely.
		He was a keen sportsman, an accurate and scientific observer.
		He died at his house in London and was buried in the Orkney Islands.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RA/RAE_JOHN.htm (306 words)

	Manitoba Pageant: Dr. John Rae
		Rae came to Fort Garry for further study of navigation and surveying, but the surveyor under whom he meant to study was ill and died shortly after Rae's arrival.
		At one time in this expedition, Rae was within one hundred and fifty miles of the two ships, Erebus and Terror, of the Franklin expedition which were beset by the ice, but he did not know of their desperate plight.
		With Commander Pullen, R.N., Rae made another unsuccessful attempt in 1850, but in 1853, in still another trip to the Arctic, he met Eskimos who gave an account of seeing men of the Franklin expedition "four winters past," and later he found thirty-five bodies.
	www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/pageant/04/rae_j.shtml (936 words)

	Interview \| Ken McGoogan
		Rae wrote that, "From the mutilated state of many of the corpses and the contents of the kettles, it is evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven to the last resource -- cannibalism -- as a means of prolonging existence."
		Leading those who vilified the returning adventurer was the unfortunate Sir John's widow, Lady Jane Franklin, who wanted her late husband remembered as a hero: and certainly not be tainted by the brush of cannibalism.
		Rae returned to Victorian England with news of what had happened to the Franklin expedition: how it ended in disaster and degenerated into cannibalism.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/mcgoogan.html (3913 words)

	John Rae emigrated from Britain to Canada in the nineteenth century
		John Rae emigrated from Britain to Canada in the nineteenth century
		On the probability of the future wealth to be derived from this new source, being sufficient to repay the expenditure of present wealth necessary to open it up.
		Notice that Rae tells us that private incentives to innovate depend ultimately on the fertility and appropriability of research.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~melino/202/Rae.html (254 words)

	Orkneyjar - Dr John Rae - Orkney's greatest unsung hero
		John Rae is undoubtedly the greatest of Orkney's unsung heroes.
		John Rae was born at the Hall of Clestrain in Orphir on September 30, 1813, the sixth of a family of nine - and fourth son - of John Rae senior, the factor of Sir William Honeyman's Orkney estate.
		His resilience and survival skills led to him being commissioned to go north to the west coast of Melville Peninsula from Fury and Hecla Strait southwards, and westwards to Dease, filling in the "blanks" on the maps of the coastline of northern Canada.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/historicalfigures/johnrae (1760 words)

	Rae, John on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A physician in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company in N Canada, Rae made (1846-47) a journey of exploration from Fort Churchill to the Gulf of Boothia, which he described in his Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea (1850).
		John Dalton's Heaven Lake and Alison Smith's Name All the Animals Win 2004 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Awards.
		Sharon Rae Bender-McNeal, a Jewish Democrat, and husband John McNeal, an Irish Catholic Republican, have been married for 15 years.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/Rae-J1ohn.asp (541 words)

	Fatal Passage: The True Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Description: In the spring of 1854, John Rae, a Scottish immigrant to Canada, led a small party of explorers across the Boothia Peninsula to map the missing link in the fabled Northwest Passage.
		Rae's trouble, McGoogan writes, came from unpleasant reports that he filed about the fate of an earlier expedition, led by Sir John Franklin, whose remains he discovered along the way.
		Rae, the messenger, was effectively killed by the tidings he brought, and written out of the history books.
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