During the winter of 1936, twenty-one-year-old Danny Corcoran of the Newfoundland Ranger Force set out on a routine wildlife patrol from Great Harbour Deep. However, he could never have imagined the nightmare that awaited him. Danny was inexperienced in travelling on the open country of the Great Northern Peninsula, and what was intended to be a two-day trek to find and waylay poachers in the area turned out to be a gruelling two-week journey that would push Ranger Corcoran to the very limits of his endurance. Frightened, crippled, and alone, young Danny Corcoran faced his biggest challenge yet . . . and prayed that a search party would find him in time. source
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Ben Hynes's Brook (near Great Harbour Deep)
“'I must be getting close to Ben Hynes's Brook,' he said. He followed the tracks again, which kept out near the river. All of a sudden his progress was stopped by a slow-moving brook. 'Ben Hynes's Brook. You've got to be out on this point.' Looking around, Pleman saw the roof of the camp on the other side of the brook… 'My God, there he is,' Pleman cried out suddenly. The unmoving figure was dressed in the dark-brown, almost black parka of the Newfoundland Rangers.”
The verbatim excerpt names Ben Hynes's Brook as the precise place where Pleman Gillard finds the lost Ranger; publisher description anchors the patrol's origin to Great Harbour Deep.
Earl B. Pilgrim, Will Anyone Search for Danny? (Flanker Press, 1999), publisher excerpt — source
