Cape Breton's Magazine

Americans. I forget what that ship was called. They anchored her up here in North Sydney, at what they called a ballast dump at that time, but right off of North Syd? ney, Point Edward. She (had been) full of nitrate. When the water hit her she blew up. All the crew got.... I was one of the guys picked the bones off. All the guys were standing up to the wheel. If you touch him the bones would just drop. That was the kind of stuff that was on her. Same in the engine room. If you touched them, his bones fell right down there. Nothing there but the bones and shadow. I had to take them off. I went right through her.... When you got aboard of her there was nobody there. All bones. All the crew was all cooked. So we picked up the bones and brought them ashore. We buried them in tin cans. Tin cans about that high (two feet). I don't know how many cruys was into a can. We brought them ashore in tin cans and buried them up in Hardwood Hill. And then the Americans sent a truck down and they dug them up again and they took them back to the States.... Adeline; I was telling him you were a rumrunner. George: I went to jail for three months one winter. Down in Port-aux-Basciues. My brother and I--we got the boat in North Sydney. There was a twelve-dory schooner loaded with coal and they wanted somebody to take her down to the Grand Banks, down in Newfoundland. I was young them days, only nine? teen years StoraEnso' A New Perspective. The recent merger of STORA, Sweden and Enso, Finland combines the strengths of two leading players in the forest industry. Together Stora Enso is a new company and a market leader in the production of paper and board. Stora Enso Port Hawkesbury is proud to be part of this new perspective, serving the growth demands of our customers. Stora Enso Port Hawkesbury Limited PO Box 59, Port Hawkesbury, N.S. BOE 2V0 old, so I took it down the Grand Banks one Janu? ary, in the winter. We unloaded the coal down there and I fig? ured I' d get back one way or another through the customs, but I didn't. He hooked me and put me in jail and I done three months. February to April in jail for being caught. I had to go to jail for three months. That was tough. You had a bucket (to do your business in), and drink water out of it. The same bucket. And the hard- 91