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Kax;. Pesyterlar,Ghurch wilt conduct
the G4th,Annual Ma.iners' Service'which
will .be.held. ,011 S.itliday, February l7 at
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The Mariners' Service is a tradition of.
this lake,port, .as tribute. is paid .to those
men and women who, lost their lives in
,thegreatest marine disaster: ever
recorded in the.'his ry of the Great
Lakes, • The; Great 1 StOrm . of Sunday,
November 9,.1913. ' •
Seventy mile an hour winds raged
across.. the great lakes from the south-
west, suddenly. .changing to the north-
west causing 71 great lake freighters to
be Iost with a death toll of 254 men and
women. Twenty-four of these great ships
of that particular era went down in Lake
Huron, eight of them in the Goderich
area. They were: Th'e Wexford; the
Regina; the John A. McGean; the James
A. - Carruthers ;_ the, Issae M. Scott, -the..
driamaymmammixamortimsmaak
Hydrus; the Charles S. , Price and .tI e
Argus.
This
laken.port was at One time anted ..
for its ship, building activities - great
schooners+and sailing vessels were'btalt
at the harbor. There was also large
fleets: of . commercial fishermen , and
there; was several -lumber mills. .
Many , %nen-associated with these
various industries would "Go to sea" i.n •
the spring of the year. Prior to 'going to
sea a church-seryiee:.was_conducted:: at
Knox for these men and their families.
The Late Dr. James. Anderson' con-
ducted the first of these services in the
spring of 1903. The service at that time
was known as the Fishermen's and
`'`•\Sailors' Service.
In . the spring of 1919 the late Dr.
George Ross, who had officiated at the
burial of 23 seamen who lost their lives in
the Great Storm, suggested that the
service be named 'The Mariners' 'Ser-
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ft3,t" l Mariners' service - all
or the decorations which are used for the
service have been donated K, e
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of hich" inclurct, ;iSignal Flags from
IImperial Cl'li ,tdt. Quse flags from The
Algoma _ •Central;'•Railways Ltd; The
Canada'Steamship:'Co. Ltd.; The Upper
Lhoran oLtd. ; and :the-
Quebec-OntarakesTraspio ShitatippinCg Co.. Ltd
The four sets of nets which are used in
the chancel, were donated by the Siddall
' Fisheries. -Ltd The`Canadian Flag and
the an ige in
the chanCanadicel, wereensn given to thewhichare hurchalso by
Captain Charles' Stowe and J.A.
McConnell. '
The running lights are from the
Algoma Central ship The Agawa, which
is the barge G,7 i,, Parsons. The Agawa
was built in 1908 and named the Howard
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•M. Hanna•Jr. She was wrecked in 1915 in
Lake Huron. She was salvaged and
named the Glen Shee. She. was pur-
chased.:by Canada Steamship lines in
1926 and renamed the Goderich. The
Algoma Central Company purchased
tier in 1901 and named her the Agawa.
The large 'white cross with its one
hundred lights' was built by the late
Harry McCreath - the light house which ----
is placed in the narthex was made by the
Dominion Road Machinery Company
Ltd.., and presented to the cnurch.
The ship'swheel which stands in front
of the communion table in the church
chancel is white oak. The wheel was
presented to the church by Wm. Young,
a member of the Mariners' . Service
Committee. The wheel came from the.
whaleback Alexander Holley.
The Dead Ey.e Chain Plate, which is
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displayed oh'the stairway o 1
is a section of the standard rt
two. masted —senate!' 'Azov
floundered on theAn erican
Aux Bairque on Lake Huron in
1911, almost two years before the Gr
Storm.
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The crew, in command of +Captain
John MacDonald of .Goderich, .;drifted.:
across the lake onto a shoal five miles 001,1
Chantry island where she sank. The
chain plate was recovered by Bruce.
MacDonald and Allen MacDonald in
1956. . •
The Harbouraires, the ever poliular
and well known all male choir which ha's
presented many programs throughout
Western Ontario, will take part in the
service •of worship. This will be the
twenty-third Mariners' Service in which
the choir have participated.
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