Some of the bodies of Franklin's men were buried at Beechey Island (in what is now Nunavut, Canada), where the crew had spent the winter of 1845-1846. Three men died there. In 1984, Owen Beattie of the University of Alberta, who had founded the 1845–48 Franklin Expedition Forensic Anthropology Project, visited Beechey Island and exhumed the three bodies, determining that pneumonia had been the cause of their death, complicated by lead poisoning from the lead food tins that had been used on the expedition.