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Into The Mist: Finding CF-JDO
In August 1959, Flight Officer Raymond Gran and his passenger, Conservation Officer Harold Thompson, set out on a mission in Ray's Saskatchewan Government Airways Cessna 180. They never returned.
Their loss sent shockwaves of grief through the community, and became the stuff of legend across a province where there's a rich and enduring tradition of propeller planes connecting communities.
Ray's daughter Linda was born to Marcella just two months after Ray's plane disappeared, and mother and daughter kept the story alive. Decades later, Linda and her family mounted a quest to find the missing men.
Finding a lost plane in dense boreal forest dotted with countless lakes in northern Saskatchewan is harder than finding a needle in a haystack. With the help of people from all walks of life, from world-class diver Mike Fletcher, sonar expert Garry Kozak, and the resourceful villages near the crash site, Ray's family brought the lost souls home.
Into the Mist weaves together spoken accounts that reveal the hardships and joys of life in the Canadian North of the 20th Century, and explores the extraordinary lengths one family went to find their loved ones.
Their loss sent shockwaves of grief through the community, and became the stuff of legend across a province where there's a rich and enduring tradition of propeller planes connecting communities.
Ray's daughter Linda was born to Marcella just two months after Ray's plane disappeared, and mother and daughter kept the story alive. Decades later, Linda and her family mounted a quest to find the missing men.
Finding a lost plane in dense boreal forest dotted with countless lakes in northern Saskatchewan is harder than finding a needle in a haystack. With the help of people from all walks of life, from world-class diver Mike Fletcher, sonar expert Garry Kozak, and the resourceful villages near the crash site, Ray's family brought the lost souls home.
Into the Mist weaves together spoken accounts that reveal the hardships and joys of life in the Canadian North of the 20th Century, and explores the extraordinary lengths one family went to find their loved ones.
172 pages, Paperback
Published June 3, 2022
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About the author
Victoria Hetherington
5 books45 followersVictoria Hetherington is a journalist, broadcaster, and author whose work explores technology, intimacy, and what it means to be human in an AI-driven world. She is the host of CBC's 'Understood: Artificial Intimacy,' and the author of five books, including 'Friend Machine: On the Trail of AI Companionship,' which inspired the season.
Her debut novel, 'Mooncalves," was called "a stunning debut" by 'The Globe and Mail' and "the Millennial answer to Atwood" by the 'The Vancouver Sun," and was shortlisted for the 2020 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Her novel 'Autonomy' (Rare Machines, 2022) was praised by Giller Prize winner Michael Redhill as "beautifully written and profoundly enthralling," with film rights acquired by Aisling Chin-Yee at Fluent Films ('No Ordinary Man'). She is also the author of 'Into the Mist' (Kestrel, 2022), a historical nonfiction book exploring a decades-long mystery in rural Saskatchewan. Her forthcoming novel, 'Hotel Psyche'(Rare Machines, 2027), continues her exploration of technology, intimacy, and humanity in fiction.
Her debut novel, 'Mooncalves," was called "a stunning debut" by 'The Globe and Mail' and "the Millennial answer to Atwood" by the 'The Vancouver Sun," and was shortlisted for the 2020 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Her novel 'Autonomy' (Rare Machines, 2022) was praised by Giller Prize winner Michael Redhill as "beautifully written and profoundly enthralling," with film rights acquired by Aisling Chin-Yee at Fluent Films ('No Ordinary Man'). She is also the author of 'Into the Mist' (Kestrel, 2022), a historical nonfiction book exploring a decades-long mystery in rural Saskatchewan. Her forthcoming novel, 'Hotel Psyche'(Rare Machines, 2027), continues her exploration of technology, intimacy, and humanity in fiction.
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April 22, 2023
This is a moving, and interesting true story. The author has brought so many personal parts of the story to us in an engaging manner. Hope all who read feel the profoundness of "some things are meant to be".
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