Ebook: Into the blue: family secrets and the search for a great lakes shipwreck
Author: Crawford family., Curtis Andrea
- Tags: Shipwrecks--Ontario--Georgian Bay (Bay)--History--20th century, Shipwrecks, Families, Biographies, Biography, History, Curtis Andrea -- Family, Crawford family, J. H. Jones (Steamer), Curtis Andrea, Shipwrecks -- Ontario -- Georgian Bay (Bay) -- History -- 20th century, Wiarton (Ont.) -- Biography, Wiarton (Ont.) -- History, Georgian Bay Region (Ont. : Bay) -- History, Georgian Bay Region (Ont. : Bay) -- Biography, Lake Huron -- Georgian Bay, Ontario -- Wiarton
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Random House of Canada
- City: Georgian Bay Region (Ont. : Bay);Wiarton (Ont.);Ontario;Wiarton;Lake Huron;Georgian Bay
- Language: English
- epub
Award-winning journalist Andrea Curtis explores the shadows cast over her family by a century-old shipwreck and uncovers the tragedy, disaster and promise of early life on the Great Lakes.
Every family has a story, passed down through generations. For Andrea Curtis that story is the wreck of the SS J.H. Jones. In 1906, the late-November swells of Georgian Bay erupt into a blinding storm, sinking the Jones and claiming the lives of all on board. Left in the wake is Captain Jim Crawford's one-year-old daughter, Eleanor, who faces a daunting future of poverty and isolation.
But Eleanor emerges from her childhood determined to leave behind the restrictions of her small town. She plunges into the excitement of Jazz-era California and 1930s Montreal, struggling to become a poet and a writer. Almost a century later, Andrea knows her grandmother Eleanor only as a sophisticated, respected Montreal matriarch. Until, while researching Jim Crawford's role in the Jones...