Date: 1913
Associated Place: Goderich, ON
Item #: M950.1461.001

A black wooden horse-drawn hearse on runners for use in winter conditions.

• Hearse used by Joseph Brophey, an undertaker in Goderich during the Great Storm on the Great Lakes in November 1913.  The storm killed more than 250 people and destroyed 19 ships.  Some of the unknown dead are buried in the Maitland Cemetery in Goderich.