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    <body><![CDATA[David Hollis spent his career unearthing artifacts of old Toronto, but at the time of his death from Lou Gehrig’s disease, his academic legacy was shadowed by his unsupported claims that a complete set of glass negatives of photos of Toronto, circa 1860, was lost in a shipwreck that now lies under landfill.  However, the story doesn’t really deal with David except in flashback, as his wife, one of his daughters, and his daughter’s fiancé deal with his death by keeping vigil over a construction site that may uncover–and possibly pour concrete over–the lost ship.  The parallel story of the photographer, a young Englishman trying to make his way in what was then a frontier outpost, punctuates the story and becomes far more vivid and compelling than the painful emotional freeze of the present day.  It is fairly slowly paced, but the characters (including the city of Toronto, a character in its own right here) have a way of coming to life forcing you to care about them.]]></body>
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