It was a little after sunrise when they set out, paddling away from shore on a summer morning in 1919. It was the beginning of an extraordinary journey. Preston Bryant and J. Clarke were attempting to do something no one had done in all the years since the city of Toronto had been founded. It was a death-defying feat not even their own friends thought they could pull off. The two Torontonians were going to cross Lake Ontario by canoe.
