Editing Henry Hudson (section)

====Later developments====
In 1612, [[Nicolas de Vignau]] claimed he saw wreckage of an English ship on the shores of [[James Bay]], located on the southern end of Hudson Bay—while this was discounted at the time by [[Samuel de Champlain]], historians believe it may have credence.<ref name=heinrich/>

British-born Canadian author [[Dorothy Harley Eber]] (1925–2022) collected [[Inuit]] testimonies that she thought made reference to Hudson and his son after the mutiny.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}} According to these, an old man with a long white beard and a young boy arrived in a small wooden boat. The Inuit had never seen a white person before, but they took them to an encampment and fed them. After the old man died, the Inuit tethered the boy to one of their houses so he would not run away. Despite the long time passed, the story might be given some credence after long-ignored Inuit testimonies proved reliable enough to lead to the discovery of the wrecks of the two ships of [[Franklin's lost expedition]] of 1845, {{HMS|Erebus|1826|6}} and {{HMS|Terror|1813|6}}, in the 2010s. [[Charles Francis Hall]], who searched for Franklin in the mid-19th century, also collected Inuit stories that he interpreted as references to the even earlier expedition of [[Martin Frobisher]], who explored the area and mined [[fool's gold]] in 1578.<ref name = "Roobol">Roobol, M.J. (2019) ''Franklin's Fate: An investigation into what happened to the lost 1845 expedition of Sir John Frankin.'' Conrad Press, 368 pp.</ref>

In the late 1950s, a {{convert|150|lb|kg|adj=on}} stone near [[Deep River, Ontario]], which is approximately {{convert|600|km|mi}} south of James Bay, was found to have carving on it with Hudson's initials (H. H.), the year 1612, and the word "captive".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-carving-on-rock-henry-h/134251134/ |title=Carving on Rock Henry Hudson, 1612? |newspaper=[[Toronto Star]] |page=21 |date=September 21, 1962 |accessdate=October 28, 2023 |via=newspaper.com}}</ref> While lettering on the stone was consistent with English maps of the 17th century, the [[Geological Survey of Canada]] was unable to determine when the carving was made.<ref name=heinrich>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ottawa-citizen-a-secret-etched-in-st/134251252/ |title=A secret etched in stony silence |first=Jeff |last=Heinrich |newspaper=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |page=C3 |date=August 13, 1989 |accessdate=October 28, 2023 |via=newspaper.com}}</ref>