Photo: A moment of reflection in the High Arctic

Commander Joint Task Force (North), Brigadier-General Guy Hamel, and Qikiqtani Inuit Association vice-president, George Eckalook, take a moment to read the grave marker of a sailor that perished in the mid-1800s on Beechy Island. Four markers from the doomed Franklin Expedition dot the island, visited during Operation Nunalivut 2012, one of the Canadian Forces’ Arctic sovereignty operations. (PHOTO BY SGT. MATTHEW MCGREGOR, CANADIAN FORCES COMBAT CAMERA)