Several joined us for another interesting history based presentation held at 7:30 p.m. in the Bendale Library on Tuesday, January 28, 2014.

Professor Emeritus Roly Salvas presented the tragic event of “The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald” through a number of slide projector images. He also spotlighted an unusual but possible cause for the freighter’s demise.

The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 8, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America’s Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there.

BIO: Dr. Salvas holds degrees in civil engineering from Queen’s U. and U. of T. and a doctorate in engineering from The University of Miskole, Hungary. His career involved work on the construction of the Trans Canada Highway before going to Ryerson University as a professor for 37 years, the last 6 as Chair of Dept. of Civil Engineering. He has been a Professional Engineer for many years and is a Fellow in Engineers Canada. A member of several genealogical and historical societies (both French and English) but his hobby and passion has always been Canadian history.

*Please see our Program Calendar page for information on upcoming Scarborough Historical Society presentations.