The St. Roch II completed a voyage through the Northwest Passage in the summer of the year 2000, and returned around the North American continent to Vancouver. The original St.Roch, and RCMP schooner, is housed at the Vancouver Maritime Museum. The St. Roch I sailed the Northwest Passage west to east in 1940 to 1942, the second ship to do so, after Roald Amundsen's Gjoa in 1903 to 1906.

The St. Roch's crew was assisted by Jow Panippakussuk and his family; and the captain, Henry Larsen, kept records of important sites in both English and traditional languages. The St. Roch II ship's crew wanted to re-tell the story of bringing southern medical, legal and navigational skills to the North. They also created a multimedia record of the voyage, and demonstrated new marine technology and communications. Curricula for northern studies are being developed from this record.