I finally have some new items to post. Eastern Chronicle, New Glasgow, NS Tuesday, 20 Oct 1942: The Sinking of the Caribou It couldn't happen here, could it not? Oh yes it could, and it did in the case of the SS Caribou that maintained a ferry service between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. This stout steamer with 260 on board left Notrh Sydney on Wednesday night and when two-thirds across the Cabot Strait heading for Port au Basque, she was torpedoed and instantly sank beneath the cold waves of the Atlantic. One hundred and thirty-seven men, women and children were carried to their death. It was a horrible affair and the most shocking and bloodcurdling marine tragedy on the Canadian coast. The ship was under convoy and that helped to save a number of passengers but the death toll is terribly large. One young man from New Glasgow, Cpl. Curry, is posted as lost. A well known citizen of Cape Breton and prominent in industry, Hugh Gillis, was lost. His was one of the bodies recovered. Mr. Gillis was a mining engineer and in charge of the iron mining operations at Wabana for the Dominion Steel Company. He was well known in Pictou County and a brother of Mrs. D.H. McDougall of Montreal. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thursday, 22 Oct 1942: Funeral for Hugh B. Gillis Body of Hugh B. Gillis, Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation engineer, who lost his life in the Caribou torpedoing was landed at Sydney on Tuesday from Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland. The body was recovered Friday by one of the vessels which searched the area where the ferry-steamer went down in the pre-dawn Wednesday and was brought first to the Newfoundland port and identified. Funeral services were held Wednesday from Scared Heart Roman Catholic Church. Arriving for the obsequies were the victim's sister and brother-in-law, Mrs. D.H. MacDougall and Colonel MacDougall, Montreal. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Carolyn Wallace