The Daily Province—an Edmonton, Alberta paper—published the Diary of Edgar Christian, one of the most poignant stories of the Arctic.
“Young Christian-19 year old son of Lt. Col. F.F. and Mrs. Christian, accompanied his cousin, John Hornby, an experienced Arctic explorer, on an expedition across the Barren lands in the North West Territories to find a route from Great Slave Lake through the Thelon Game sanctuary to Chesterfield Inlet and Hudson’s Bay. Hornby was a member of a well known Chesshire family, his father being the late Mr. A.N.? Hornby of Nantwich, famous as Captain of the Lancashire Cricket Club.
They were joined by Harold Adlard, aged 28, the son of a Bloomsbury publisher.
They reached the sanctuary in the late summer of 1926 and were not heard of again until July 21, 1928, when a patrol of Northwest Mounted Police, searching for the lost expedition, found the bodies of the three explorers, who
