Mr. Robert Grenier

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  We found copper fragments which could well have come from one of the ships we're looking for," said Robert Grenier, chief of underwater archaeology at Parks Canada.
  
  "They revealed the prior presence of considerable number of these sheets," he told reporters."This was for us, I would say, a very significant find."
  
  Copper did not exist naturally in the region and the sheets could not have been made by the local Inuit, he said.
  
  The team found the fragments during a six-week trip in August and September to three islands near O'Reilly Island in the Queen Maud Gulf, close to where Franklin's ships are believed to have sunk.
  
  "Just as the DNA in a lock of hair can provide detectives with evidence proving a criminal's guilt, these ... (fragments) indicate that we are on the right track," said Grenier.Other searches over the years found traces on copper sheets on other islands in the vicinity.
  
  He said the copper fragments showed signs that Inuit had used the sheets over the years to make traditional tools.
  
  The fate of the Franklin expedition still grips the public's imagination and previous exploration teams have found traces of 70 crew members, many of whom started trekking overland in desperation.
  
  Research suggests they suffered from lead poisoning from either canned food or the ships' water supply, and Inuit stories tell of cannibalism among the doomed crew.
  
  Grenier said his expedition had been badly hampered by fog, snow and high winds.

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  We found copper fragments which could well have come from one of the ships we're looking for," said Robert Grenier, chief of underwater archeology at Parks Canada.
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  "Just as the DNA in a lock of hair can provide detectives with evidence proving a criminal's guilt, these ... (fragments) indicate that we are on the right track," said Grenier.Other searches over the years found traces on copper sheets on other islands in the vicinity.
  
  He said the copper fragments showed signs that Inuit had used the sheets over the years to make traditional tools.
  
  The fate of the Franklin expedition still grips the public's imagination and previous exploration teams have found traces of 70 crew members, many of whom started trekking overland in desperation.
  
  Research suggests they suffered from lead poisoning from either canned food or the ships' water supply, and Inuit stories tell of cannibalism among the doomed crew.
  
  Grenier said his expedition had been badly hampered by fog, snow and high winds.

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  Robert Grenier, a senior underwater archeologist with Parks Canada, will lead the reconnaissance mission through the frigid archipelago aboard the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
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  Grenier said the melting sea ice makes it easier for his crew to navigate the polar waters - but it also opens the once-inaccessible Northwest Passage to grave robbers.
  
  "Our objective is to find and protect the wreck, because they are in danger of being found by people who don't have the know-how and the same intention and preoccupation that we have," he said.
  
  "For the first time in over 160 years, I feel that the witnesses of (the) Franklin tragedy events have a chance to really contribute to an important search party," he said.

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  Robert Grenier continued to travel extensively in his capacity as President of the International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage of ICOMOS. Workshops and meetings that Robert attended in Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe were aimed at supporting and promoting the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.
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  In 2002, the SHA received a formal invitation from the president of ICOMOS's International Committee on Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH), Robert Grenier (also a UNESCO Committee member), to appoint a representative as a non-voting associate member to the ICUCH.

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  "At the time, it was common for militiamen to have personal items bearing the initials of their first name, family name, and wife's name," says Robert Grenier, head of underwater archaeology for Parks Canada. "The initials correspond to only one person from the expedition, an officer."

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  Ironically, the push for an international agreement to protect the wreck site â€" located in the North Atlantic about 700 kilometres from Newfoundland's shore â€" began in Canada in the 1980s, Parks Canada chief archeologist Robert Grenier told CanWest News Service.
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  "Frankly, the problem is bureaucracy," said Grenier.
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  "If the U.S. Congress ratifies this in the next few weeks, the pressure would be built up for us to do things," said Grenier, one of the world's leading advocates for state regulation and preservation of underwater heritage."At the moment, I'm reasonably hopeful."

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  The vessels' fate is considered so touchy that Robert Grenier, chief of underwater archeology at Parks Canada and the senior Ottawa official dealing with the issue, has been barred by his superiors from speaking publicly about it.
  
  "This file is ... very politically sensitive," said Mr. Grenier, who is also president of UNESCO's international scientific committee on underwater cultural heritage.

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  These were important industrial operations, and as Parks Canada nautical archaeologist Robert Grenier explained to me in one conversation we had on this subject, "the Basque had very modern ways to do things fast and efficiently."

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  The new Canadian expedition will be led by one of the world's pre-eminent underwater archaeologists, Robert Grenier, head of the underwater unit at Parks Canada. Grenier is the man who directed the excavation of the 16th -century Basque galleon in Red Bay, Newfoundland, and recently published a massive five-volume report on that work, which has been called "a milestone in the history of marine archaeology."
  
  It seems that the Canadian government has finally taken this step for largely political reasons.Canadians are keen to reinforce their claims of sovereignty over the Northwest Passage, particularly as the world warms and the passage becomes ice-free.But all of this is very good news for science, and I can think of no one better than Grenier to lead this immensely important search.
  
  This entry was posted Friday, August 15, 2008.

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  After decades of official indifference to the possibility that new technologies might locate the missing Royal Navy ships, Ottawa is not only mounting a search, reportedly from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen and led by Parks Canada senior underwater archaeologist Robert Grenier, but the Conservative government is investing it with national purpose.

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