Photo: Divers find new artifacts in the HMS Erebus

Reporters gather around Nunavut MP Leona Aglukkaq May 13 in Ottawa after she unveiled new artifacts recovered from the 170-year-old HMS Erebus, the famed Sir John Franklin shipwreck which was only just discovered in Nunavut waters in 2014. A recent diving expedition led by Parks Canada and the Royal Canadian Navy discovered one of the ship’s two six-pound bronze cannons; buttons from the jackets of Royal Marines; a medicinal bottle, plates and glassware. The new HMS Erebus artifacts are display at Ottawa’s Canadian Museum of History until May 18. (PHOTO COURTESY OF L. AGLUKKAQ)