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John Rae FRS FRGS (Inuktitut: ᐊᒡᓘᑲ, ; 30 September 1813 – 22 July 1893) was a Scottish surgeon who explored parts of northern Canada. He was a pioneer explorer of the Northwest Passage . Rae explored the Gulf of Boothia , northwest of the Hudson Bay , from 1846 to 1847, and the Arctic coast near Victoria Island from 1848 to 1851.
The Canadian Economics Association awards the John Rae prize every two years since 1994 to the Canadian economist with "the best research record for the past five years." ." The prize has been named after John Rae (1796–1872) who did most of his work in Canada and was "a genuine precursor of endogenous growth theo
Cornish explorer For the discovery of the course of the River Niger or Quorra, and its outlets in the Gulf of Benin 1833 John Biscoe: English mariner and explorer For the discovery of the land now named "Enderby's Land" and "Graham's Land" in the Antarctic Ocean 1834 John Ross: Scottish Royal Navy officer and polar explorer
John Rae (actor) (1896–1985), Scottish actor; John Rae (economist) (1796–1872), Scottish economist and author of Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy; John Rae (explorer) (1813–1893), Scottish explorer of the Arctic; John Rae (administrator) (1813–1900), Australian administrator, painter and author
John Knox (c. 1513–1572), leader of the Scottish Reformation Thomas Leishman (1825–1904), minister and liturgical scholar David Lindsay, 1st Duke of Montrose (1440–1495), first Scottish non-royal duke, Lord High Admiral of Scotland , Master of the Royal Household of Scotland , Great Chamberlain and Justiciar
The Honeyman family later moved to the mainland, and the house was occupied by their agent, John Rae. The hall was the birthplace of Rae's son, the Arctic explorer John Rae, in 1813. Sir Walter Scott visited Rae's parents at the house in August 1814, while touring the north of Scotland. [1] Currently derelict, the house became a listed building ...
John MacGillivray; John MacGregor (sportsman) Kenneth N. MacKenzie; Aeneas Mackintosh; Charles Rawden Maclean; James Marr (biologist) Quintin McKinnon; Evelyn McNicol; Harry McNish; Archibald Menzies; Osborn Maitland Miller; William Mirtle; Thomas Mitchell (explorer) John Muir; George Murray (naturalist) James Murray (biologist) John Murray ...
In 1854, the explorer John Rae found himself at the centre of one of the great controversies of the nineteenth century – the fate of the Franklin expedition. With the British hoping to be first in the race to discover the Northwest Passage, the news Rae brought of starvation and cannibalism among final survivors set off a firestorm that would eclipse his own incredible accomplishments.