Today in History revisits the Sunday, August 23, 1903 edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story on two young Canadians, part of a hunting trip in Muskoka, who ended up stranded for four days on a small, uninhabited island after their canoe struck a submerged log during a storm. With no tools to repair their damaged boat and no fishing gear or fire to cook, their only food was two packages of Grape-Nuts cereal and a can of condensed milk—originally meant as a gift for someone else.

A couple of young Canadians had an accident to their canoe and were left upon a small uninhabited island for four days before help came during which time they had nothing to eat but a couple of packages of Grape-Nuts.

In telling the story one of them says: “There was quite a party of us, and we p

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