Library Record

Metadata

Item ID#

AX2004.0166

Title

Into the blue : family secrets and the search for a Great Lakes shipwreck

Object Name

Book

Author

Curtis, Andrea

Publisher

Random House Canada

Published Date

2003

Description

Using family stories, archival research and fictionalized reenactments, Andrea Curtis narrates her family history, and that of the place they once called home - Georgian Bay. "Into the Blue" shimmers with Curtis's rich and reflective voice, recreating a little-known but formative time when Canadians persevered through unthinkable loss, violence and disaster. (From dust cover bio) This book includes information about Captain Jim Crawford and the sinking of the J.H. Jones.

Table of contents includes:
- The Indian peninsula
- The shipping news
- All hands lost
- The Saddest Calamity
- The summer people
- "The deep waters of Georgian Bay never give up their dead"

Physical Description

269 p. : ill. ; 22 x 15 cm (cream hardcover, blue photo dust jacket)

ISBN

0-679-31135-1

Places

Bruce Peninsula
Lion's Head
Owen Sound
Tobermory
Wiarton

People

Crawford, Jim, Captain

Search Terms & Subjects

Boats
Disasters
Domestic life
Family
Family history
Marine
Ships
Shipwrecks
Transportation