If it’s possible to look through the eyes of the past, Jonathan Moore has done it.
The manager of a team of Parks Canada underwater archeologists excavating the rediscovered ships of the doomed Franklin expedition once held in his hands the lens from a pair of eyeglasses fetched from the deep. Then he held it up to his own eye.
“I wear glasses,” Moore said. “I know that would have been an incredibly important personal possession.
“It certainly struck me as a connection with that individual. Some of these specific artifacts are incredibly evocative.”
Moore was summing up what he called a highly productive
