Canadian shipwrecks the focus of new museum exhibit

It’s called ‘What Lies Beneath: Canadian Shipwrecks of Lake Superior’ and the new exhibit is now on display the North Bay Musuem.

The exhibit is on loan from the Thunder Bay Museum until the end of May and features video footage, interviews, and selected artifacts from many of the wrecks.

It tells the largely undocumented story of many of the ships that wrecked in Canadian waters.

They include passenger liners, war ships, freighters, ghost ships, yachts, fishing boats, and tugs.

Officials say What Lies Beneath illustrates through first-hand accounts from survivors the struggle between humans and their environment, and stories of human courage and survival.

(Submitted photo of SS Harvey Neelon by Jakub Sisak)