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Daniel Sinclair, his wife, Ann Campbell and six of their seven children immigrated from Scotland to America in 1843. From the Port of New York they went to Albany and then west. They joined a party of Mormons in 1848 and moved to Utah and later settled in Bountiful. John M. Macfarlane was a great grandson. Other descendants lived in Utah, Arizona, California; Chihuahua, Mexico and elsewhere.
Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island. For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the...
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