Dear Reader: We invite you to enjoy pages from a life lived on the sea, out of Canada’s Pacific coast by a young man coming of age at the start of the Great Depression to the end of the Second World War in 1945. It was the start of adventure and skill-building at sea, evading
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Book Synopsis of the Early Seafaring Years of Joe Marston, Sr.
Living in Interesting Times: The Early Seafaring Years of Lt. Cdr. J.C. Marston, RCN, CD, DSC (Retired) 1930-1945 My father first went to sea in the early 1930’s as a 15-year old bridge messenger aboard the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company’s ocean liner Empress of Canada. until the end of WW2 in 1945. He spent almost 2 years