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Many Canadians and Americans have made their homes in Africa and been lost to memory in their own countries. George Albert Lloyd, an American, is among these. He was one of the first to see the CSS Alabama, a Confederate raider, enter African waters, and the only American to welcome his fellow Americans onto dry land....
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The Tilikum captain was John Voss who had set out from Victoria, British Columbia, with fellow Canadian, Norman Luxton, in 1901. Their voyage was inspired by Joshua Slocum, a Nova Scotian who had sailed around the world during the last decade of the nineteenth century....