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This odyssey is about my life experiences as a Chief Engineer on board Canadian Lakers , as they

were called.

It is also an expose into the inside workings of a Shipping company, namely Canada Steamship

Lines inc. where I gave my blood, sweat and tears to make a living as a new immigrant in a so called

first world country.

This book is written to expose the inside workings of a Shipping company during the years that I

toiled to make a living as a man seeking to make a livelihood in supposedly a great country. It is not

the country that is to blame but people like Mr. Martin who are so twisted that they lose sight of the

common man and use them and abuse them for their personal gain.

The book gives a true account as to how one large corporation hounded one individual who spoke

the truth and who sought justice and who wanted to make a change and to make the scenery better

for future generations of Sea going personnel.

The book also gives you page-by-page description of how a corporation self-destructs. Surely there

must be a lesson in all this.

Experiences included in the book are mind-boggling. They include Shipping accidents, shipboard

assaults, battery, Companys BLACKLIST, which includes a list of so called undesirables, pollution,

environmental and ecological damage. Mergers and acquisitions, dismissals and corporate lynching,

witch hunt, Human Rights issues, illegal constitutional changes, changing pension laws and the

Canada Shipping act illegally to suit the ship owner, Corporate Corruption and greed.

There is one chapter solely on Shipboard assaults and a list of undesirables that sailed the Lakers.

It gives me great satisfaction to know that I could share my experiences with a wide variety of

Human Beings and I am sure people who read my book would be flabbergasted when they get to

know as to what goes on behind the scenes of a Maritime Industry of a G-8 Country.

How soon one forgets that we sailors help to build the wealth of a nation by carrying goods that

helps to grow the nations economy and that we sailors have also helped fight the enemy during the

first and second world wars and also make a major contribution in feeding an entire nation.

It is also a book about vengeance and Revenge-an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth..

Just like Edmond Dantes In the Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.

To pray sometimes for a man, who like Satan thought himself for an instant equal to God, but who

now acknowledges with Christian humility that God alone possesses supreme power and infinite

wisdom.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with

another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme

happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.

"Live then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God

shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, - `Wait

and hope. Your friend,

"Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo."

Above all it is one mans search for truth and justice, and a triumph of adversity--a true Sailors

Odyssey.