Our Friend Joe: The Joe Fortes Story

by Barbara Rogers and Lisa Anne Smith

When a young black man named Seraphim Joe? Fortes arrived in Vancouver in 1885, with little to his name, no one could possibly have suspected that one hundred years later he would be voted Citizen of the Century.? Our Friend Joe is the first biography of the West Indian sailor who became a local legend, saving lives and teaching three generations of Vancouver children how to swim. Joe's rise to fame began in Liverpool, when a midnight race across...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553801466
• ISBN13: 9781553801467
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Ronsdale Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"