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rudder, propeller and some of the ship's plates. On one occasion the vessel was driven ll miles off course by strong easterly winds which piled ice as high as the ship itself. Before the rescue by the Gray, the Landa, a 5000 ton, 360 foot ship, was in danger of going aground.

Montcalm in Ice

On February 24, 1920 the Canadian Government steamer, Montcalm, arrived at North Sydney, Cape Breton, from the Magdalen Islands where she took provisions and mails. She was six weeks making the trip from Souris, Prince Edward Island to Pleasant Bay, Magdalen Islands as she was caught in ice floes and held captive.

Stranded Fishermen

Washington Young and Seldon MacLean were coming ashore from their travels off MacInnis Cove, a short distance west from Basin Head (Bear Creek). Their dory capsized on the bar. Young told Seldon to hold on to the dory, and that was the last he saw or heard of him. Seldon hung on with a death grip to the gunwale of the overturned dory, while Wilfred and Hedley MacLean, who saw the accident from the shore, launched another dory with all speed and hastened to the rescue. They saved Seldon in a thoroughly ex— hausted condition but no trace of Young was to be seen. The next morning his body was picked up on the point west from Basin Head. He sailed the Western Atlantic for many years, fished on the Grand

Banks out of Gloucester and was drowned near his own home. This was on April 27, 1906.

A Delayed Journey to Kingsboro

When Mrs. John D. Stewart (mother of John Alex., his sisters and brothers) passed away in 1907 one of the daughters, Lena, left Boston for home. She spent nine days on the Minto, walked on the ice to Caribou, took team to Cape Tormentine, crossed on an ice-

boat to Cape Traverse (Borden) and arrived home on the l5th day after her mother's passing.

Lost at Sea

On May 5, 1912 James (Jim) Robertson, Kingsboro, left Souris about 5 p.m. in a dory loaded with salt and other supplies on return to his home, a distance of about 7 miles.

About nightfall he was seen off Little Harbour, but nothing further was seen of him.

At this time he was about 60 years of age and came to Kings—

boro from Cape Breton about twenty years before and lived in a small house near the seashore.