Note: Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, and Ed Trickett recorded this song under the title THE LOSS OF THE BAY RUPERT on their album "And So Will We Yet" (1990).

However, Larry Kaplan, the songwriter, called it THE WRECK OF THE BAY RUPERT when he recorded it on "Worth All the Telling" (1993), and so did Dick and Ian Lewis on "Legacy of Music" (2011).

Neither word, loss nor wreck, appears in the lyrics.

I attempted to verify the place-names mentioned in the song, but beyond Hopedale, Labrador, I found nothing.