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Index
Introductions
Beginnings · Anita Hadley
Waypoints · Michael L. Hadley
Chapter I: The Face of the Deep
“Injured Choriant or Paeonic” · Malcolm Lowry
“The Call of the Sea” · L.M. Montgomery
Sea Magic · Theodore Goodridge Roberts
The Hungry Ocean · Farley Mowat
Coming Suddenly to the Sea · Louis Dudek
A View from Signal Hill · Wayne Johnston
The Virgin Berg · Wayne Johnston
A Wartime Seascape · Alan Easton
It’s in How You Read the Water · Allan Anderson
Tidal Tempest · Tom Koppel
Ice · Admiralty
Ice · David (Duke) Snider
An Archipelago of Ice · James P. Delgado
The Northwest Passage and Climate Change · Glyn Williams
The Imprisoning Sea · Neil Bissoondath
Moments of Wonder · Yann Martel
Trash · Yann Martel
Chapter II: At the Edge
Ucluelet · Emily Carr
“The Old Man’s Grave” · L.M. Montgomery
“Sea Sand” · Louise Morey Bowman
The SS Atlantic’s Last Resting Place · Greg Cochkanoff and Bob Chaulk
The Northwest Coast · James P. Delgado
Tides of the West Coast · Michael L. Hadley
The Siwash Rock · E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
BC’s Rocky Shore · Gloria Snively
Cha-atl · Emily Carr
“Yellowpoint” · Robin Skelton
An Aura of Lost Eden · Michael Poole
In on the Tide · Joe Denham
Tentacles of the Protean Sea · Rudy Wiebe
The Northwest Passage by HBC Canoe · Duncan Pryde
Adrift on the Ice · Julian W. Bilby
At the World’s Edge · Al Purdy
Spring Breakup in Labrador · Harold Horwood
“Cabot Strait” · George Whalley
“Islands” · Charles Bruce
Lighthouse · Frank Parker Day
Sparks · Thoman Raddall
Wild Pride · Malcolm Lowry
Their Beacon · Allan Anderson
The Crying Souls of D’Arcy Island · Chris Yorath
Kayak Venture into History · Philip Teece
Stargazing at Anchor · Philip Teece
Chapter III: Vessels
from “The Bluenose” · Stan Rogers
The Haida Canoe · Martine J. Reid
The Strait of Juan de Fuca · Barry Gough
The HBC’s Nonsuch—Winnipeg’s Deep-Sea Ketch · Peter C. Newman
“The Ships of Saint John” · Bliss Carman
Schooner Magic · Lou Boudreau
SS Beaver · Norman R. Hacking
The Sinking of RMS Nascopie · Peter Pitseolak
A Seagoing Work of Art · David Rahn
Lured by a Dream · Philip Teece
A Man and His Boat · Sam McKinney
Union Steamships · Beth Hill
Behind the Scenes · Robert D. Turner
Prayer for a Naval Ship · Department of National Defence
Recalling the Canadian Corvette · Louis Audette, Ken Macpherson and Marc Milner
Rowboat · Kenneth Macrae Leighton
Home to Rest · F.S. Farrar
Chapter IV: Passages
Kwakiutl Prayer
Voyaging: a Metaphor for Life · Silver Donald Cameron
Cabot and Navigation · Thomas B. Costain
Cartier’s Voyages into Canada · Donal Creighton
Landfall in Acadia, Nova Francia, 1606 · Marc Lescarbot
Singing the Northwest Passage · Stan Rogers
Charting Desolation Sound · George Vancouver
Could I Have Been One of Them? · Sam McKinney
Sailor with a Mission · J. Lennox Kerr
Glory, Grounding, and Home · William Balfour Macdonald
Sailing to Yan · Emily Carr
Our Marine Thoroughfare · Pat Wastell Norris
Challengers of the Northwest Passage · Henry Larsen
“Crossing the Straits” · Richard Greene
Chapter V: Just for the Joy of It
from Tomorrow Will be Sunday · Harold Horwood
Farewell Nova Scotia · Joshua Slocum
Regatta · Emily Carr
Racing for the Fishermen’s Cup · Keith KcLaren
“The Squall” · Milton Acorn
A Sovereign State of Mind · Silver Donald Cameron
Sunday Harbour · M. Wylie Blanchet
Sand Castles · Wayson Choy
Pocket-Cruiser Passage · Philip Teece
Put Her in Forward · Linden MacIntyre
Rowboat Meets Cruise Ship · Kenneth Macrae Leighton
Chapter VI: Bounty Bestowed—Bounty Betrayed
Kwakiutl Prayer, “To the Olachen”
from “Cod 2” · Michael Crumney
Walrus Hunting · Aua
The Whalers of Pangnirtung · Aksaajuuq Etooangat
Whaling Camp · Alice French
Victoria’s Cape Breton Sailors · Donald MacGillivray
“From the Sea” · Floris Clark McLaren
“Dragging for Traps” · Milton Acorn
The Capelin Are In! · Wayne Johnston
Log Salvage—West Coast Style · Ferenc Máté
King Salmon on the BC Coast · Edith Iglauer
Crabbing · Joe Denham
Wasting the Sea · Donna Morrissey
“Halibut Cove Harvest” · Kenneth Leslie
Chapter VII: Peril and Loss
“Erosion” · E.J. Pratt
Whalers Lost · Chief James Wallas
“Last Song” · Robin Skelton
Fishin’ in a Dory · Marq de Villiers
“The Ground Swell” · E.J. Pratt
“The Sailor and His Bride” · Isabella Valancy Crawford
Rescue at Sea · James and Marlene Richards with Eric Hustvedt
The Titanic · Gabrielle Roy
The Empress of Ireland · Herbert P. Wood
Diving and Death on the Empress of Ireland · Kevin F. McMurray
Death on Vanderbilt Reef · Ken Coates and Bill Morrsion
The Halifax Explosion · Hugh MacLennan
Prayer When Cast Away in an Open Boat · Department of National Defence
“Newfoundland Sealing Disaster” · Michael Crummey
From Flores · Ethel Wilson
Oil Rig Disaster at Sea · Lisa Moore
“Death by Drowning” · Elizabeth Brewster
Fathers and Sons · Michael Falt
Chapter VIII: Migration and Exile
from The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor · Sally Armstrong
The Voyage of Paul Le Jeune, 1632 · Francis Parkman
The Bitter Taste of Freedom · Suzanne Desrochers
A Hard Chapter in the Book of History · Antonine Maillet
Do Not Trust Large Bodies of Water · Lawrence Hill
Land, Bloody Land—Thanks Be to God · Sally Armstrong
At the Rail · Alice Munro
Landfall in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1833 · William Kilbourn
Ghosts of History · Ingrid Peritz
Point of Entry · Jane Urquhart
The Alchemy of Immigration · Derek Lundy
Towards Gam Sun—Gold Mountain · Judy Fong Bates
Farewell, My Bandit-Princess · Wayson Choy
Voyage of the Damned · Irving Abella and Harold Troper
Stolen Boats, Stolen Lives · Joy Kogawa
My War-Bride’s Trip to Canada · Janet McGill Zarn
Burial at Sea · Nino Ricci
“One Time I Crossed the China Sea” · Nhung Hoang
Chapter IX: A Noise of War
The Naval Prayer · Department of National Defence
Profile of a Navy · Marc Milner
The Battle of Hudson’s Bay · Peter C. Newman
Press Gangs and Privateers · Thomas Raddall
War Games · Michael L. Hadley and Roger Sarty
Off Coronel · Archibald MacMechan
Wartime Shipbuilding · James Pritchard
Seapower · Joseph Schull
The Maple Leaf Squadron · Author unknown
Down the Gangplank into the European Theatre of War · Earle Birney
U-69 Sinks the Ferry Caribou in Cabot Strait · Michael L. Hadley
Convoy to Tobruk · Osmond Borradaile and Anita Borradaile Hadley
The Last Siege of Malta · Gordon W. Stead
The Sea Is My Enemy · Hugh Garner
A Memory of the Merchant Marine · Alan Easton
“Finale” · George Whalley
Chapter X: Portraits
from The Colony of Unrequited Dreams · Wayne Johnston
“I Was Born by the Sea” · Una H. Morris MacKinnon
Old Slocum · Pierre Berton
“Charlottetown Harbour” · Milton Acorn
“Eastern Shore” · Charles Bruce
Snapshots of a Bluenose Skipper · Keith McLaren
“The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter” · Floris Clark McLaren
Portrait of Elias Pallisher · Harold Horwood
North Shore, PEI · Anne Compton
John Antle: Skipper-Pastor · Michael L. Hadley
“Morning Labrador Coast” · Michael Crummey
A Cod-Fisher’s Life · Farley Mowat
“Boxing the Compass” · Richard Greene
The Fish Plant · Donna Morrissey
This Is the Old Timer · Norman Hadley
My God, That’s a Woman! · Allan Anderson
Portrait of a Community—the Escuminac Victims and Survivors · Compiled from various public records
Best Chef · Wayson Choy
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