Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Deep Waters: Courage, Character and the Lake Timiskaming Canoeing Tragedy

3.9/5 ( ratings)

There are few writers who can take the facts of an actual event and transform them into a compelling story that captures the mind and the heart. James Raffan is that rare author, proving with Deep Waters that he is a masterful storyteller who has not only penned a story that is by turns harrowing and poignant, but is also a powerful investigative work that sensitively explores the nature of courage, risk and loss. On the morning of June 11, 1978, 27 boys and four leaders from St. John’s School in Ontario set out on a canoeing expedition on Lake Timiskaming. By the end of the day, 12 boys and one leader were dead, with all four canoes overturned and floating aimlessly in the wind. This tragedy, which was first deemed to be an “accident,” was actually, as James Raffan explains, a shocking tale of a school’s survival philosophy gone terribly wrong, unsafe canoes and equipment, and a total lack of emergency preparedness training. Deep Waters is a remarkable story of endurance, courage and unspeakable pain, a book that also explores the nature of risk-taking and the resilience of the human spirit.

Pages: 256

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Phyllis Bruce Books

Release: June 06, 2010

Deep Waters: Courage, Character and the Lake Timiskaming Canoeing Tragedy

3.9/5 ( ratings)

There are few writers who can take the facts of an actual event and transform them into a compelling story that captures the mind and the heart. James Raffan is that rare author, proving with Deep Waters that he is a masterful storyteller who has not only penned a story that is by turns harrowing and poignant, but is also a powerful investigative work that sensitively explores the nature of courage, risk and loss. On the morning of June 11, 1978, 27 boys and four leaders from St. John’s School in Ontario set out on a canoeing expedition on Lake Timiskaming. By the end of the day, 12 boys and one leader were dead, with all four canoes overturned and floating aimlessly in the wind. This tragedy, which was first deemed to be an “accident,” was actually, as James Raffan explains, a shocking tale of a school’s survival philosophy gone terribly wrong, unsafe canoes and equipment, and a total lack of emergency preparedness training. Deep Waters is a remarkable story of endurance, courage and unspeakable pain, a book that also explores the nature of risk-taking and the resilience of the human spirit.

Pages: 256

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Phyllis Bruce Books

Release: June 06, 2010

More books from James Raffan

Emperor Of The North

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Circling the Midnight Sun

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Fire in the Bones: Bill Mason and the Canadian Canoeing Tradition

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Bark Skin And Cedar

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Ice Walker: A Polar Bear's Journey through the Fragile Arctic

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Rendezvous with the Wild: The Boreal Forest

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Canexus: The Canoe in Canadian Culture

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Every Trail Has a Story: Heritage Travel in Canada

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Depression, Emotion and the Self: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Ebo as a Healing Technique in Ifa Divination System

Canexus

Determinants of Commercial Banks' Profitability in Ethiopia

Prevalence of Male Sexual Dysfunctions

Dazed but Not Confused: Tales of a Wilderness Wanderer

Ice Walker: A Polar Bear's Journey through the Fragile Arctic

Uchastie Rossii V Mezhdunarodnom Mirotvorchestve Oon

Die Bedeutung des Auslandsaufenthaltes für das Lehramtsstudium: Das Potential für die gelebte Interkulturalität in der Volksschulpraxis am Beispiel der Republik Rumänien (German Edition)

Russkie voprositel'nye infinitivnye predlozheniya (Russian Edition)

Sustainable Competitive Strategies

Tumblehome: Meditations and lore from a canoeist's life

Rate this book!

Write a review?