Boatnerd Discussion Forum

Yes, those photos were taken from the railway bridge. Many of them were taken by Frank Patyk, who was son-in-law of A. E. Young and successor proprietor of Young's Studio on Portage Avenue. Many photos also were taken from the same spot by Edwin Wilson of Milwaukee. I have many of the postcards that ...

The silos that remain are not used in any way. It was intended that they be torn down at the same time as the others but the whole demolition process was very difficult and was simply abandoned. There have been a number of projects planned for the site but nothing ever comes to fruition. Victory ...

Normac was not a steamship but rather a motorship. She retained that name as long as she was registered, although the name of the restaurant operating aboard was prominently displayed. She has not been on the Canadian register for many years, but she still exists as a restaurant at Port Dalhousie.

Algosteel's Canadian registry was closed on May 11.

According to the Transport Canada website, the Algosteel`s certificate does not expire until May 31, 2020.

The R. E. Law stone dock was on the west side of the "point" below Lock 8, Humberstone, across the lower end of the weir from the Robin Hood elevator and flour mill.

Roger: We wrote the GRACE up as Feature No. 351 in the March 2014 issue of The Scanner. Details of the sisters in the class and of the unusual machinery were given there.

Thanks for the information.

Anybody know where the Laurentien is? She isn't in any of the lay-up reports I have received for our listings in the February issue of The Scanner -TMHS.

Yes, Upper Lakes did. They regularly used James B. Eads, Maunaloa II, Douglass Houghton and John Ericsson to tow barges - usually to Goderich, Sarnia and Port Colborne. The Paterson and Hutchinson fleets used them into the mid-1950s. Q&O and Hindman also used former consort barges in the pulpwood ...

The "large amount of bulk commodity" that was on Pier 52 during the winter, beside where Spruceglen was laid up, was bulk sugar which had been brought in by self-unloaders last autumn to see Redpath though the winter months. The piles were protected by tarps and the sugar was trucked over to the ...

Algosoo is no longer by herself on the west face of Pier 35, Toronto. Two days ago, there was to be marine activity at Pier 52, so Spruceglen was taken from there and rafted alongside the Soo, facing south. If/as/when Algosoo leaves, tugs will have to pull Spruceglen out of the way.

The tanker Sterling Energy came over from Hamilton on Friday and put bunkers aboard Pineglen.

I don't see your point. The Marine Muse um of Upper Canada WAS a public institution - and so is Heritage Toronto, which used to be known as the Toronto Historical Board. How much more pubic can you get? People donated to it thinking their artifacts would be on display at the museum and accessible by ...

Unfortunately, as in the song, "you're too late in asking"! There are no remaining intact canallers. Wolf River, even in her altered state, could never be considered a representative canaller. Neither could Metis in her stripped down barge state, but at least she is still being used on a fairly ...

MacIsaac Construction, of Antigonish, N.S., is the firm that removed the remains of Canadian Miner from the shore of Scatarie Island. Perhaps Catherine III will be used to transport away the cut-up steel.

The tow passed out through the Eastern Gap, Toronto, at 11:00 a.m., making good time. Molly M. 1 on the bow, Jarrett M. at the stern.

My father made a round trip as a passenger on CSL's Noronic in 1942 and was hoping to get lots of photos of passing steamers for his collection. But all the time they were in the St. Mary's River, there were guards patrolling the open decks making sure that no cameras were being used.

Pineglen is on the west face of Pier 35, facing south.

Metis is on the south side of the old Essroc terminal at Villiers Street, while the Roman is at the new Essroc terminal on the north side of the Leslie Street slip off the turning basin.

English River is at the Lafarge terminal on the south ...

The first major all electrically welded lake vessel that was actually built on the lakes was the tanker Transiter (later Transtream) built in 1935 at Fort Erie, Ontario, by Horton Iron Works Ltd.