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| Susan LeCaine, Jeanne LeCaine, Hugh LeCaine |
“My earliest actual memory has to do with water and the
boat....Lights are shimmering in the water, the reflections of the stars and
the moon. I am tired but not cross, just happily drugged with sleep and sun and
a long weekend of fishing. I am glad to be almost home, but I look forward to
other such trips. The Cradle of the Deep is well
named. I lie down again and feel its gentle rocking.”
After retiring from a fifty-year career as a mathematics teacher
and researcher, Jeanne LeCaine Agnew (1917-2000) compiled these stories and
early photographs of her family’s life in the 1920s and 1930s in Port Arthur
(now Thunder Bay), Ontario.
From the summer fishing trips in the Cradle of the Deep
in her early childhood to the years spent enjoying the family’s cottage, built
by her dad when she was seven, this memoir records her deep connection to Lake
Superior’s north shore. Throughout her life, she returned every summer to the
cottage, which remains in the Agnew family.
In the photo, Jeanne and her older brother, Hugh, sit in the
stern of the Cradle of the Deep as their
mother, Sue LeCaine, holds it steady. It was taken along the North Shore of Lake
Superior, near Jarvis Bay, south of the eventual location of the family
cottage.
We are thrilled that publishing technology makes it possible to
share this book and memories--not only with the extended family but with former
colleagues, neighbours and friends, and others who love Northwestern Ontario.
