Inspired by True Events
In 1934, North America lay stripped
of its riches by a great depression. When the land refused to yield its
bounty and the sea grew stingy, everyone in the Western World found it
harder to survive, especially those in the isolated outports of
Newfoundland.
The Last Farewell
tells the true story of a crew of logger-sailors who left their home port of
Hare Bay aboard a two-masted schooner in early June of that year. Along her
route to St. John’s, the crew of the Ethel Collett tell each other
stories of life and death on the sea. They relive some of Newfoundland’s
richest historical moments, from shipwrecks and sealing disasters to
political strife and financial ruin. But little do they know that they are
heading toward one of the most astonishing tales of them all: their own.
