Skipper Ches: As Tough as It Gets

The life and times of Captain Chesley Dyke and Elsie Stanford Dyke Pool’s Island, Bonavista Bay Fred Dyke captures the joys and struggles of his parents and what it was like in rugged Newfoundland outports from the early 1900s, through the Great Depression, and into the 1950s and 1960s. Storms, shipwrecks, working in the woods, fishing, and courage made up the lives of a loving couple who raised their family on Pool’s Island, Newfoundland. Skipper Ches Dyke understood rejection, poverty, an...