This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SOC.2ACE/5.1 Message Board Post: This was taken from the first paper in July of 1893 (Digby Courier): Two young men Charles and Albert Cann aged respectively 28 and 23, left Westport early last Friday morning in a boat to fetch their trawls. They intended to return about 10:00, but did not. Towards evening their non-arrival caused so much uneasiness and positive alarm that the steamer Westport was dispatched to search for them. Two hours searching the vicinity in which they were unquestionably fishing failed to reveal trace of the missing boat. Old fishermen think that they overloaded their boat and swamped. Both young men were married and each leaves a widow and one child. Such a sudden and unexpected calamity on the brightest of summer days has cast a deep gloom over the whole town. The boat belonging to the unfortunate young men has since been picked up near Centreville by young men named Swift and Graham. When found she was bottom up and had gone down with sails set. One fish was found in the boat, a souwester, a pipe, 4 handlines and a compass. It is fully bel! ieved that she was overloaded with fish and swamped in the rips on the return home.