Who was the woman they called "The Swimming Champion of the World"? Was she part of the famous Beckwith family of swimmers from England? Or was she a barefoot girl who ran away from a little Nova Scotian town to find her fortune?
Ern Dick is an archivist, oral historian, lecturer, and student of the sound and moving image of Atlantic Canada-and now is becoming an historical detective. He was originally from a fruit and vegetable farm in south-western Ontario, worked for the Public Archives of Canada and as Corporate Archivist of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Ottawa, and has been living in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia for the past 25 years. Ern has worked with museums, broadcasting, heritage societies large and small, friends and neighbours to animate the past-always following the stories the past has to tell.
