Editing John Rae (explorer) (section)

=== Later career ===
[[File:John_Rae_from_Ridley_Collection.jpg|thumb|Rae in the 1860s]]
[[File:John Rae Plaque Hamilton 2017.jpg|thumb|Plaque commemorating Rae's time in [[Hamilton, Ontario]]]]
With the prize money awarded for finding evidence of the fate of Franklin's expedition, Rae commissioned the construction of a ship intended for [[polar exploration]], the ''Iceberg''. The ship was built at [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]], [[Province of Canada|Canada West]]. Rae moved to [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]], Canada West, also on [[Lake Ontario]], in 1857, where his two brothers lived and operated a shipping firm on the [[Great Lakes]].

The ''Iceberg'' was launched in 1857. Rae intended to sail her to England the following year to be outfitted for polar voyages. In the meantime, she was put to use as a cargo ship. She was lost with all seven men on board in 1857, on her first commercial trip, hauling coal from [[Cleveland, Ohio]], to Kingston. The wreck, somewhere in Lake Ontario, has never been located. While in Hamilton, Rae became a founding member of the Hamilton Scientific Association, which became the Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art, one of Canada's oldest scientific and cultural organizations.

In 1860, Rae worked on the telegraph line to America, visiting Iceland and Greenland. In 1864, he made a further telegraph survey in the west of Canada. In 1884, at age 71, he was again working for the Hudson's Bay Company, this time as an explorer of the [[Red River of the North|Red River]] for a proposed telegraph line from the United States to Russia.