Darren Muljo’s grandfather, Ransom “Ray″ Cundy, was a watchman aboard the SS Edmund Fitzgerald when it went down during a Nov. 10, 1975, storm on Lake Superior.
And it was his mother, Cheryl Rozman, who has since passed away, who helped pressure the Ontario government to make the site mostly off limits and preserve it as a grave for the 29 lives lost.
“The families wanted to have it declared a gravesite,” to protect it against commercialization with strict limitations for only “legitimate archeological, scientific or law enforcement purposes,” said Muljo, who was five when he last saw his grandpa at the docks in Duluth, Minn., in the summer of ’75.
An amendment to the Ontario Heritage Act in
