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Key Harbour on Georgian Bay 60 miles north of Parry Sound had a twenty pocket, 240-foot long ore dock built in 1905-1906 that lasted well into the 1920s, operated by the Canadian Northern Toronto-Sudbury District.

Saginaw 1873.png This is a pen-and-ink drawings done by Father Dowling based on a panoramic view of Detroit, showing a likeness of the Transit , a ferry the Great Western built in 1872 the year before the the firm built the smaller Saginaw , and I believe the latter would have looked much similar. ...

USS/Kobe appeared when what I think was then known as USX merged its Lorain plant with Kobe in 1989. That didn't work out and in 1999 USX retained what became known as the Lorain Tubular Steel Operations and Republic took the steel bar mill. The plant expanded in 2010 but, in irony of ironies, the e...

There were three vessels named Novadoc . The first was a Canadian World War I "laker," Canadian Pathfinder , purchased from the Canadian government 8 October 1925 and renamed Norman M. Paterson and Novadoc the following year, in the fleet for only year until Paterson turned it over in Febr...

Despite its name, the ore trade was never a consideration of Hall Corporation for the Orefax , it intended to be a replacement for the canaller Coalfax . Its typical routes were typical self unloader routes: coal from Sodus Point to Hamilton, Toronto, and as far east as Montréal, and stone from Marb...

Well, the tug is Port Weller , built 1912 at Sorel probably by Chantiers Manseau as Rosalie L. for Sincenne McNaughton Lines Ltd., Montréal. Later Glenvivet in 1928 for Consolidated Oka Sand & Gravel Co., Ltd., I believe Port Weller acquired it when the yard entered business in, I think, 1946. I...

Several here:

https://www.shiphotos.com/Ship/?ID=686

The Québec Liquor Corporation, a part of the Québec provincial government, imported wine from France, Spain, and Italy by tanker through the 1970s into the 1990s, at least, using dedicated wine tankers flagged in Europe. The QLC bottled the wine itself and distributed it to wholesalers. Guinness had...

Construction of the South Chicago facility began in summer 1981 and was completed in time for the opening of the 1982 season.

The International Nickel Company of Canada, Ltd., built an "ore recovery" plant near Sunbury in 1956 and the pellets were carried by the Canadian Pacific Sudbury division to the Turner dock where the original coal unloading equipment, a Brown hoist on a bridge, loaded the ore. Algoma Centr...

However, I can think of at least two ships built as straight deckers and rebuilt as self-unloaders, the Quetico (Whitefish Bay) and Colonel E. M. Young (Sparkman D. Foster), that were converted back into gearless bulk carriers later in their careers As a self-unloader with a particularly slow and c...

The provincial government of Nova Scota established two "Human Stations" on Sable and St. Paul Islands before confederation, the Sable station in 1801. After confederation in 1867 the newly created Department of Marine and Fisheries, beginning in 1871, established an increasing number of l...

I believe they are named for the same person. E. J. Newberry, also known as Jerry Newberry, originally a lakes engineer and later an official at Buffalo with the United States Salvage Association, formed a marine survey firm near Cleveland with another USSA official from that city, James Sherman, in...

The Ashland was towed to Thunder Bay where repairs were completed, arriving 11 December 1979 and leaving 12 December 1979.

The only coal dock at Blind River was operated by the Canadian Pacific for its own use and that of local mills, built in 1904 and dismantled in 1966. Reiss owned no docks outside of the United States, but it may have distributed coal to Canadian docks on Lake Huron, but that seems unlikely. Most coa...

Mataafa and the tanker L. S. Wescoat were sold to Marine Salvage, Ltd., in 1964 and resold to Eisen & Metall AG, Hamburg, the following year. Both comprised a double tow, arriving at Hamburg for demolition on 19 July 1965. I'm pretty sure the bell was removed at Port Colborne.

In 2001-2002 the first laker to have a reclaimer system, the John D. Leitch (originally Canadian Century ), had that system replaced during its rebuilding with grates and gates in the hold floor above the unloading belt tunnel. Front end loaders maneuvered the cargo not above the grates over them an...

Tashmoo struck rocks at 11:45 PM and sank after midnight. Considering Sarnia was a regular stop during the 1936 season on the Port Huron leg of the trip I don't see why passengers disembarking (especially under such conditions) would be a problem at Amherstburg. And, uh, the Bob-Lo steamers daily c...

Another bonus, the electricity produced by the turbine generator could be used for unloading. Indeed, although from the Wyandotte onward electricity powered the unloading systems. This, though, involved having a separate steam engine to drive a generator supplying electric motors. Wyandotte had two...

The Bradley fleet had already adopted turbine-electric propulsion with the building of the T. W. Robinson in 1925. The general layout was not ideal but the overall performance and economy of operation led to Carl Bradley stipulating turbine-electric for his eponymous new build in 1926. Turbine-elect...