Big Canoe

Big Canoe is the 1986 solo album released by former Split Enz frontman Tim Finn. Finn had won Australasian success with his debut solo album, Escapade in 1983, while still a member of his longtime band Split Enz. Finn left the band permanently in June 1984, to focus on a solo career, and the following year moved to London and began working on Big Canoe. The album utilised a wide variety of instrumentation, including guitars, orchestral backings and traditional Indian instruments - notably on the ambitious single No Thunder, No Fire, No Rain, which was inspired by the Bhopal chemical disaster. Though Big Canoe reached number three on the New Zealand charts, it failed to become the international breakthrough that Finn or record company Virgin had hoped.

Finn worked on lyrics for the album with British writer Jeremy Brock. Big Canoe also marked the first time Finn had worked with Split Enz co-founder Phil Judd since Judd left the band in 1978. In interviews Tim said that the idea was that he and Judd intending on writing together again, trying to recapture the magic of early Split Enz. Instead a lot of drinking happened, but Phil was still commissioned to play guitar.

Big Canoe, Georgia

Coordinates: 34°27′28.11″N 84°17′29.02″W / 34.4578083°N 84.2913944°W / 34.4578083; -84.2913944

Big Canoe, Georgia is an affluent common interest development gated community, consisting of over 8,000 acres (32 km²), located in the mountains north of Atlanta, Georgia.

It is located between Jasper, Georgia, and Dawsonville, Georgia, about 60 minutes north of Atlanta; it has about 3100 full-time residents and as many weekenders.

History

Tate Family

In the 1830s, Samuel Tate, the owner of a hotel on Federal Road, discovered marble on his property and began buying up the surrounding land through the land lottery. In 1850, Tate entered a partnership which opened a quarry near the present-day town of Tate.

By 1880, however, the Georgia marble industry was suffering. Fortunately, the construction of the Marietta and North Georgia Railway allowed the stone to reach new markets, and the Tate family founded the Georgia Marble Company in 1884 in response to growing business and newly interested investors. In 1905, Tate's grandson, Colonel Sam Tate, became president and general manager of the company, and oversaw a period of dramatic growth and profit.