![]() An orphan who had come to love David as his own father, John finds himself caught in a struggle between mother and daughter–all the while keeping a dark secret from both women. The only person to share her vigil is John Lewis, fiancé to her daughter, Bridget. ![]() His colleagues, however, are convinced that he faked his research materials.ĭetermined to vindicate him, his widow, Marianne, sets up camp in a hotel overlooking the construction site, watching and waiting for the boat to be unearthed. He postulated that on the site where a sports arena is about to be built lie the ruins of a Victorian boat containing an extraordinary treasure: a strongbox full of hundreds of never-seen photographs of early Toronto, a priceless record of a lost city. A renowned professor of “forensic geology,” David leaves in his wake both a historical mystery and an academic scandal. These are among the last words of Professor David Hollis before he throws himself off a ferry into the frigid waters of Lake Ontario. ![]() But we stop them up with concrete and build over them and whatever it is they wanted to say gets whispered down empty alleys and turns into wind.” “There is a vast part of this city with mouths buried in it. ![]()
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