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The Big Canoe Project will hold its fourth annual spring fundraiser at the Meaford Hall on April 19.

The Big Canoe Project will hold its fourth annual spring fundraiser at the Meaford Hall on April 19.

The Big Canoe Project will hold its fourth annual spring fundraiser at the Meaford Hall on April 19.

The Big Canoe Project will hold its fourth annual spring fundraiser at the Meaford Hall on April 19.

TOBERMORY — Over the past 20 years quadrillions of invasive mussels have been sucking the life out of the Great Lakes. They’re trapping nutrients, the basic building blocks of life, on the lake bottom. Without nutrients, organisms of all kinds - from the tiniest plankton to the largest fish - are vanishing. In Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Ontario, vast offshore areas have become “biological deserts,” heralding one of the biggest changes to the Earth’s freshwaters in 10,000 years.

A duo working on a documentary about invasive quagga mussels in the Great Lakes discovered the long-lost steamship "Africa"

Filmmakers Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick were shooting a documentary about quagga mussels when they came across the shipwreck of a vessel that disappeared in October 1895

Filmmakers documenting quagga mussels in the Great Lakes discovered whats believed to be a wreck of a 128-year-old Lake Huron steamship.

“We honestly expected to find a pile of rocks,” say the Canadian documentary film-makers who have discovered the wreck of the Africa, a cargo steamer that

Local filmmakers working on a documentary about invasive quagga mussels in the Great Lakes discovered whats believed to be a wreck of a 128-year-old wooden steamship in Lake Huron.