The Great Storm of 1913 and Tom Reid. Very compelling history, Thank you Sir!
@mrkidskid
9 жыл бұрын
another well put together peace bob, thank you for your time and your sharing,
@porthuronhistory
9 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it.
@mrkidskid
9 жыл бұрын
Bob Davis I had an uncle died on one of the ships, Rowert, he was listed in a book of lost sailors , of the storm,
@kimfleury
5 жыл бұрын
@@mrkidskid - were you at the Museum event on November 9 or 10, 2013? The weather forecaster for one of the tv stations gave a fascinating presentation. I met some of the families of sailors who were lost. One pair of brothers said their grandmother lost her own brother on one of the ships, and never recovered from it. It made an impression on me, thinking of how it affected the way she raised her own children and became part of the family heritage in a very real way.
@kimfleury
5 жыл бұрын
Had to pause at 10:37 to offer one hypothesis I came across about how the crew members from the different boats came to be found wearing the life jackets from the other -- The townspeople and farmers along the Canadian shore where the bodies washed up were immigrants from an area of Great Britain where shipwrecks were common, and bodies routinely washed ashore along with whatever goods that floated. Sort of like the Pirates of Penzance, these were a very poor people who pragmatically scavenged the beaches for necessities and luxuries, which they could use or sell. They probably saw the tragedy for the drowned sailors as a boon for themselves -- a natural part of their ancestral culture which they wouldn't have questioned. The concept of "robbing the dead" was foreign to them. However, when the natural-born Canadians discovered that the bodies had been robbed they were shocked and horrified. The Times-Herald published an article expressing disgust and dismay at such a display of heartless cruelty. The sheriff on the Canadian side may have had some knowledge of the immigrant culture, or he may have simply recognized the futility of investigating and prosecuting all of the grave-robbing crimes. Whatever the case, he issued an announcement ordering that all goods removed from the bodies be restored, no questions asked, within a given number of hours. After that time, he would prosecute anyone found to have in their possession items from the shipwrecks. As quietly as they had disappeared, the items were restored to the bodies. But there was a difficulty in that the robbers didn't take note of which bodies they had robbed. When they returned the items, they simply left them with random bodies. It may be that the life jackets were returned to the wrong sailors... but I admit, it does seem odd that the grave robbers took the time to put the life jackets on the bodies. Even so, it's the most sensible hypothesis I've come across to explain the mystery.
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