In August 1959, Flight Officer Ray Gran, DFC and his passenger, Conservation Officer Harold Thompson, set out on a mission in Ray’s Saskatchewan Government Airways Cessna 180. They never returned. Their loss sent shock-waves of grief through the community, and became the stuff of legend across a province where there’s a rich and enduring tradition of propeller planes connecting communities.

Ray’s daughter Linda was born to Marcella just two months after Ray’s plane disappeared, and mother and daughter kept the story alive. Decades later, Linda and her family mounted a quest to find the missing men. Finding a lost plane in dense boreal forest dotted with countless lakes in northern Saskatchewan is harder than finding a needle in a haystack. With the help of people from all walks of life, from world-class divers and sonar experts to the resourceful villages near the crash site, Ray’s family brought the lost souls home.

“Into the Mist” weaves together spoken accounts that reveal the hardships and joys of life in the Canadian North of the 20th Century, and explores the extraordinary lengths one family went to find their loved ones.

This is a soft-cover, economy paper, full-colour version of this title with 165 pages complete with photos and diagrams covering the search.