new things to him, like gardening or sign language or how to make a funny face.

“It was amazing to see Greg with Finn,” said Mandi Hotchkiss-Legris, one of his closest friends. “Making Amanda his wife was just the start of seeing Greg exactly where he wanted to be.”

Time for a break

After two years of taking care of Finn, Sutherland needed a break.

He loved to fish, family members said. As a youngster, he had fished all over Michigan. When Finn was born, the two fished together at their apartment complex pond.

Last year, Sutherland read a Facebook post about Big Island Lake Wilderness, which is part of the Hiawatha National Forest.

Greg Sutherland fishes with his young son, Finn. Greg died in a freak accident during a canoe trip to thekey to enjoying a visit to Wilderness is to plan a trip that matches your experience and expectations, according to the website. Sutherland had little experience visiting such an isolated spot, but made up for it with preparation.

It said people interested in roughing it might prefer more accommodating sites that offer developed campgrounds or maintained hiking trails.

“The key to enjoying a visit to Wilderness is to plan a trip that matches your experience and expectations,” according to the website.

Sutherland had little experience visiting such an isolated spot, but made up for it with preparation.

He began planning a year earlier, compiling pages of notes about the wilderness area, relatives said. He followed a half-dozen Facebook pages about Michigan outdoors activities, joining two, Michigan River Rats and Michigan Kayaking/Canoeing.

In his


stove, five-gallon food bucket, fishing pole, tackle box, tarp, rope and three knives.

Amanda, the dutiful nurse, assembled a first aid kit that included everything she could think of.

By the time they were done, the backpack was four feet long and weighed 60 pounds.

Sutherland even brought his pillow.

Amanda Sutherland holds her son Finn, who lost his father Greg Sutherland in an accident while canoeing in the U.P. Max Ortiz, The Detroit News

Jeff Taylor, a family friend who had nurtured Greg’s interest in fishing by taking him around Michigan as a youngster, was suggesting things to bring to the U.P. when Greg stopped him.

“He said, don’t you worry, I have everything,” Taylor said.

Sutherland joked that experienced campers would laugh over all the things he was bringing. But the way hereach his camping spot. He was as strong as an ox, but it took a lot of effort to travel that far in a short time, Taylor said.

Because of the heavy weight, his own and the gear’s, the canoe likely rode low in the water, making it harder to paddle, he said.

The lakes are connected by footpaths, including one over a steep hill.

Sutherland, who is diabetic, would have had to make several trips to lug all his stuff between the lakes, one for the canoe, one for the backpack, possibly a third if anything remained, Taylor said.

One reason people travel in pairs is so they can share the load, he said.

Sutherland was supposed to go on the trip with a friend, but the buddy backed out after getting


a job.

Taylor wondered if his protege had been a bit too ambitious in his solo sojourn.

“I didn’t realize he would go so far in there,” he said. “I think he bit off a little too much. He attempted too much too soon.”

A fatal slip

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When Sutherland reached McInnes Lake, he found a rudimentary campsite with a site post, metal fire ring and rustic pit latrine.

It was raining as he set up camp, pitching a tent, laying out insulin, cutting cord so he could hang the food bucket from a tree, according to investigative reports by the DNR and Michigan State Police.

While slicing the rope, he apparently slipped in the wet conditions and fell on the knife, surmised investigators. The knife was later found near the bucket.

He wrapped an elasticbandage around his upper right thigh before using his belt as a tourniquet.

Seeking help, he apparently used his pistol to make a distress call, firing three rounds of three shots apiece, said the state police. Investigators recovered six of the nine shell casings.

Sutherland had brought the Ruger because the wilderness area was known to have bears and bobcats.

But it’s unlikely anyone heard the shots. It was late in the camping season and few, if any, people were in the wilderness area, which doesn’t require permits.

To stem the bleeding, Sutherland propped his leg on the red canoe as he lay on the ground, his hands behind his head, according to the DNR. And that’s how rangers found him.

He looked like a man relaxing on a beach.

One mystery continues to


bedevil Sutherland’s family.

The accounts of the DNR and state police suggest he died Friday evening, Sept. 20. That would have been the first night he had set up camp. The fire pit was never used. None of his food was eaten.

But the death certificate listed the time of death as the following day at 8 a.m.

Dr. George Krzymowski, a Marquette pathologist who performed the autopsy, declined to discuss the case. Two months after Sutherland’s death, he hasn’t yet filed the medical report.

Show caption Hide caption Annette Borg holds a photograph of her late son Greg Sutherland, as his wife Amanda Sutherland and son Finn react on Sunday, October 27, 2019.... Annette Borg holds a photograph of her late son Greg Sutherland, as his wife Amanda Sutherland and sonFinn react on Sunday, October 27, 2019. Greg Sutherland died in an accident while canoeing in the U.P. Max Ortiz, The Detroit News

Wife travels to U.P.

After not hearing from Sutherland Sunday, the day he was due back, his wife began texting him.

He had told her to call authorities if she hadn’t heard from him by 8 p.m., which she did. Amanda and a friend then drove all night to the U.P.

The women went to a state police post in Manistique, where a captain said someone would come to provide an update on the search for Greg.

As she waited, a man walked into the building, introduced himself to an officer as the chaplain and said he had heard that something had happened.

It took Amanda a minute to realize he


to capacity instead of partially empty when the ship sank.

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Unlike the other boats, they weren't connected to lowering davits and were impossible to remove when the Titanic crashed. Approximately 100 more people might have been saved if these boats had been correctly stored or replaced by conventional boats. In addition to designated lifeboats, the Titanic included a pair of cutters; open rowing boats used for emergency situations, kept swungDamian Green has been sacked as first secretary of state after admitting he lied about the presence of pornographic images on his House of Commons computer.

An investigation by the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, found that Green’s vehement denials after a Sunday newspaper reported that porn had been found on his computer were “inaccurate and misleading”.

His departure is a personal blow for Theresa May, who brought him into Downing Street after her majority was wiped out in June’s general election to help shore up her authority.

He is the third cabinet minister to step aside since early November, following the departures of Michael Fallon and Priti Patel.

In a letter responding to his resignation, the prime minister said she was “extremely sad” about losing Green from government. May said it


night, said: “Mr Green’s statements of 4 and 11 November, which suggested that he was not aware that indecent material was found on parliamentary computers in his office, were inaccurate and misleading, as the Metropolitan police service had previously informed him of the existence of this material.”

As first secretary of state, Green effectively acted as deputy prime minister, standing in for May at prime minister’s questions and sitting alongside her on the frontbench in the Commons.

Green was a friend of May’s from when the pair were at Oxford University together, and one of a handful of older ministers she brought back into government when she arrived in Downing Street in July last year and dispatched many of David Cameron’s allies to the backbenches.

May flies to Poland at thestart of a two-day foreign trip on Thursday, and is not expected to appoint a replacement for Green until parliament returns from its Christmas recess in the new year.

She is then expected to carry out a wider reshuffle, bringing some of the new generation of Conservative MPs into the cabinet in order to refresh the government.

The allegations about Green emerged as women began to share their experiences of sexual misconduct in political life after the revelations of inappropriate behaviour by media mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Fallon stepped down as defence secretary after admitting he had not met the standards required of the armed forces of which he was in charge, after the journalist Jane Merrick said he had lunged at her after a lunch.

Several other investigations are continuing, including that