Book description
The steamer Wexford, with her flared bow, tall masts, and
her open, canvas-sided hurricane deck, charmed spectators as she
carried cargo across the Great Lakes. The romance and adventure of her
British and French history in the South American trade followed her.
Under newly appointed 24-year-old captain Bruce Cameron, her fateful
final voyage was punctuated with opportunities to be saved from
destruction , but his persistence in trying to make port at Goderich
led to tragedy - a victim of the storm of 1913. Over a period of 87
years, she eluded many efforts to locate her remains, but was finally
discovered in 2000 by a sailor using a fish-finding device. Since
then, she has been visited by thousands, but sadly plundered. Our
story traces her history from her British origins in 1883, through the
transition to become a "Laker," the eventful storm, the
search, and her ultimate discovery in southern Lake Huron, and the
controversy over how she should be protected.
Paul Carroll leaves no stone unturned… the book serves as an ideal
primer for the Great Storm itself.
Paul Carroll, a "wharf
rat" in his youth, brought forward the first Waterfront
Development Plan for the long-term evolution of the Goderich shoreline
and was involved with the sidescan sonar search for the
Wexford. Paul's most recent book is Four Years on The Great
Lakes. He and his wife Mary live near Goderich.
