The Canal At Sault Ste Marie
The South Shore Quarry's Contribution to Canadian History
by Shirley Hoskins and Jan Joyce

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This is the story of how a long abandoned limestone quarry on the south shore of Manitoulin Island played a small, but significant role in Canadian history. For over one hundred and twenty years the story of the quarry has lived on in the recollections of the residents of Meldrum Bay, the town not far from the deserted mine site. The recollections of their mother’s and father’s, grandmother’s and grandfather’s combined with stories by historian Pierre Berton and Canadian canal historian, Robert Passfield bring fact and fiction together to bring light and life back to the quarry on the south shore of Manitoulin Island. This is the history of the short lived South Shore Quarry.

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The author has been an avid fan of Manitoulin Island since discovering its beauty in 1997. Meldrum Bay, at the far west end of the island, became a summer base in 2000. Curiosity about the small village generated a rewriting in 2007 of Archie Wickett’s 1966 memoirs, The History of Meldrum Bay and Dawson Township. This book, The South Shore Quarry, is the second chronicling of past events rooted in the village’s community. This book is dedicated to the Joyce family who for generations has lived in Meldrum Bay and offered inspiration and support to the author and to Tyler and Abigail, the author’s grandchildren with the hope that their young, inquiring minds will enjoy reading about and exploring their own Canadian heritage. The author taught English as a Second Language for the Toronto District School Board for many years before joining the faculty at Sheridan College in 2007. She now spends most of the year at her home in Meldrum Bay.

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Shirley Hoskins

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Jan Joyce

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