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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Caplan, Ronald     Subjects     Shipwrecks -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- History     Browse Catalog     by author:      Caplan, Ronald       by title:      Great Cape Breton sh...       by call number:      971.69 G786     Search the Web     Caplan, Ronald     Shipwrecks -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- History       MARC Display

Great Cape Breton shipwreck stories / collected with an introduction by Ronald Caplan. by Caplan, Ronald Breton Books c2017. Call #: 971.69 G786 Subjects Shipwrecks -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- History ISBN:  9781926908052 (pbk.) Description:  vii, 171 p. [6] p. of plates : photos ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Contents:  Introduction -- Journal of the voyage and wreck of the Auguste, 1761 / by Saint-Luc de la Corne -- Wreck of the Astraea at Little Lorraine, 1834 / from H. W. Crawley's report -- A North Sydney Harbour tragedy, 1874 / by Elva Jackson -- The inquiry into the Dorcas and the Etta Stewart, 1893 / by Senator Michael MacDonald -- Wreck of the Ariadne, Neil's Harbour, 1896 / by Lillian Crewe Walsh -- Wreck of the Watford at Schooner Pond, 1932 / by Sara MacLean -- Shipwrecks on the Fourchu-Framboise Coast, 1912-1967 / guide Michael MacDonald -- The wreck of the Hurry On near Judique, Inverness County, 1935 / by Euphemia Malcolm MacEachern -- Sinking of the Caribou Ferry, 1942 -- Fishermen Rescue American Seamen at Louisbourg, 1943 / by Jean Kyte, including conversations with Charlie Bagnell and Ed Levy -- Walter Boudreau: The Louisbourg rescue, and the sinking of the Schooner Angelus, 1943 -- Aboard the wreck of the Kismet II at Meat Cove, 1955 / by John Angus Fraser -- The sinking of the Patrick Morris - One sailor's day -- Notes. Summary:  "From the gut-wrenching trek of the survivors of the Auguste to John Angus Fraser's hilarious adventures aboard the abandoned Kismet II, to Walter Boudreau's harrowing days adrift in a lifeboat and the sinking of two Newfoundland ferries - this book is an astonishing tribute to the tradition of Cape Breton storytelling. Filled with courage and humanity, these are 18 stories of people determined to live, told by people determined to keep these stories alive. Includes 35 photographs."--Back cover Other authors:  Caplan, Ronald, 1942- Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 971.69 G786 Core Collection - Adult Adult Display 1 Add Copy to MyList Central Library Local History Collection 971.69 G786 Non-circulating Local History Room - Central Library, 4th Floor Add Copy to MyList

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