Atrocity On The Atlantic by Nate Hendley
It was the greatest Canadian naval disaster of the First World War.
Maritime History
Against the Tides by Ronald Rudin
The untold story of the engineers who dammed Canada’s Maritime marshlands.
Bill Arnott’s “Gone Viking” with Canadian Geographic
An armchair excursion this time on Bill Arnott’s Beat, with thanks to Canadian Geographic for requesting this story, a Canadian adventure touching transnational coasts.
Around the World in a Dugout Canoe by John M. MacFarlane and Lynn J. Salmon
The first independent account of the remarkable voyage of the Tilikum. Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island.
Margaret Atwood, Campobello Island and the Passamoquoddy by Rachel Bryant
The following article was penned by Rachel Bryant, author of The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic. It was originally published on her website on September 21st, 2019 and is reproduced here with her kind permission.
Land Beyond the Sea by Kevin Major
Land Beyond the Sea is a startlingly good feat of historical fiction, based on the torpedoing of the passenger ferry SS Caribou by U-69 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in October 1942.
