
FREEZE UP THUNDER BAY LAKE SUPERIOR
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WILLIAM SHERLOCK WAS MY GRANDFATHERS BROTHER
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MARY CHRISTINE BROWN SHERLOCK
William Wright Sherlock son of Henry Adolphus Sherlock was born in Prince Edward Island. The family moved to Port Arthur ( Thunder Bay ) Ontario on the shores of Lake Superior in 1886. His brothers were Hugh Edward Sherlock James MacArther Sherlock Ernest Stanley Sherlock Henry Melbourne Sherlock Herman Lester Sherlock sister- Margaret Mae Sherlock William Wright Sherlock , his wife Mary Christine Brown , also from Port Arthur , Ontario and family lived in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario when he was a light keeper on Michipicoten Island. William Wright Sherlock went missing and presumed drowned trying to get home after the closing of shipping season , December 1918. Mrs Mary Christine Brown Sherlock took over the light in the spring of 1919 .
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call " Gitchee Gumee " Superior they said never gives up her dead When the gales of November come early.
Gorden Lightfoot from " The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald "
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