by Guest » September 3, 2020, 11:11 am
I'm so glad you posted this! As a landlubber living across Lake St Clair from Wallaceburg, I had no idea that freighters, however small, could and did venture up those rivers to Wallaceburg. I can't imagine them making all the bends, and how time consuming it must have been. But what a delightful sight it must have been back in the day, to see a freighter sailing through a farm field. The article sent me off on a search for historical information about the city and its industries that I never realized existed. For instance, I never knew there was a sugar beet industry there, or that International built trucks in Chatham and shipped some by freighter from Wallaceburg. Thank you! Going to make drive over there once the border opens again.
I'm so glad you posted this! As a landlubber living across Lake St Clair from Wallaceburg, I had no idea that freighters, however small, could and did venture up those rivers to Wallaceburg. I can't imagine them making all the bends, and how time consuming it must have been. But what a delightful sight it must have been back in the day, to see a freighter sailing through a farm field. The article sent me off on a search for historical information about the city and its industries that I never realized existed. For instance, I never knew there was a sugar beet industry there, or that International built trucks in Chatham and shipped some by freighter from Wallaceburg. Thank you! Going to make drive over there once the border opens again.