Photo of the SS Caribou in port.  Sadly, the ferry was sunk by a German U-Boat during a World War II crossing. (Credit: (cariboumanifest.wordpress.com)

Zane Grey, R.C. Grey, Bob Carney and Captain Laurie Mitchell crossed the Cabot Strait from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland on the SS Caribou on June 26, 1929. Romer Grey and George Takahashi followed on June 30^th.

Zane and his brother, R.C. had come to Nova Scotia from Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania where they had experienced a melancholy last visit to the home where so many of Zane’s early novels had been written.  Their Lackawaxen trip was preceded by a visit with publishers in New York City.

They joined Captain Mitchell and Bob Carney in Nova Scotia where they fished several rivers including the famous Medway.  Mitchell was a fishing guide living in Nova Scotia who had encouraged the Grey’s to join him in fishing for Atlantic Salmon; first in Nova Scotia then in Newfoundland. Bob Carney was the photographer for the excursion and Romer Grey’s good friend.