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9. Ship of the Month - cont'd. QU EEN CITY, NIAGARA, KEYSTONE STATE and LOUISIANA, the last to run to Green Bay, the other four to run a t r i - w e e k l y service to C h i c a g o . " This was the opening of the Ontario, Simcoe and H u r o n Railway. M A Z E P P A (I), (a) FARMER, had been brou ght up from Toronto to C o l l i n g w o o d under charter to aid in the harbour c o n s t r u c t i o n work in 1854. She was kept on to run along the south shore to Owen Sound. Anot h e r sidewheeler, OXFORD, was placed in c o m p e t i t i o n with her on this route. The routes on G e o r g i a n Bay being taken up by other steamers, K A L O O L A H was pl a c e d on a run from C o l l i n g w o o d to Green Bay. On April 24th, 1855, the "Buffalo Daily Courier" reported: "Green Bay and C o l l i n g w o o d . - The 'Detroit Tribune' says the steamer K A L O O L A H is to run on the route between Green Bay and Collingwood, Canada, the present season. C o l l i n g w o o d is the terminus of the Ontario, Simcoe and Lake (sic) Huron Railroad. The run is to be made in 48 h o u r s . " K A L O O L A H suffered engine p r o blems again in June of 1855. It was reported that the shaft broke when she was at the foot of Lake Michigan. She was towed from there to the Straits of Mackinac, and the damage was e s t imated to be a p p r o x i m a t e l y $ 2 , 500. In the spring of 1856, K A L O O L A H was sold to new owners. The "Buffalo Daily Courier" of April 19th reported: "The steamer K A L O O L A H has been sold by Mr. (Charles) Thompson to a company in Owen Sound, from w h i c h place to C o l l i n g w o o d she is to make a daily trip, in a d d ition to going once a week, on Sundays, we believe, to P e n e t a n g u i s h e n e . " By mid-s u m m e r of that year, the stea mer had been r e n a m e d (b) COLLINGWOOD, and she was included in the list of C a n a d i a n ships p u b l i s h e d in the "Toronto Globe" in its August 4, 1856, edition. C O L L I N G W O O D was r e p o r t e d to be owned by the Lake Huron Tran sit Company. The next year, this same paper listed the ship again, with Gibb a r d and Co. shown as the owners. We return to Capt. M c C a n n e l ' s article: "With the r a i l r o a d runn i n g to C o l lingwood, the S t u rgeon Bay ( P e n e t anguishene) route was abandoned, and the steamer KALOOLAH, that ran fro m that port in 1853-1854, was brought to C o l l i n g w o o d to run to the Soo and inte r m e d i a t e ports. Her name was changed to CO L L I N G W O O D and she was sailed by Capt. McGregor. July 24th, 1857, she was chartered to carry the Red River E x p e d i t i o n from C o l l i n g w o o d to Fort William. The e x p e d i t i o n was u n d e r Pro f e s s o r Yule (sic) Hind, and was c o m posed of 44 men, a number b eing Iroquois Indian voy a g e u r s engaged to handle the canoes. The steamer passed through the Soo Canal Jul y 27th and cast anchor off Fort Will i a m July 31st, h a v i n g been dela y e d by g r o unding near M i c h i p i c o t e n Island. From the Soo Canal records we find that the C O L L I N G W O O D was the first r e g i s t e r e d C a n a d i a n stea mer to pass through the canal to go up Lake S u p e r i o r . " (The Soo canal first opened to vessel traffic in 1856 - E d . ) R e f e r r i n g to The C a n adian Red River E x p l o r i n g E x p e d i t i o n of 1857 by H enry Youle Hind, published in 1860 at London, we have a description of the voyage on Lake Superior: "We passed through the m a g n i f i c e n t locks of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal at 3 P. M. on the 27th, and w hen e n t e r i n g Lake Superior were met by an imposing and threatening spectacle, w h i c h i n s t a n t l y arrested and fixed the a t t ention of all. A huge cloud, dense and black at its base, seemed to lie with one e x t r e m i t y resting on the Gros Cap de Superior, the other on Point Iroquois, the distance betw e e n those e l e vators b eing about six miles... Its form changed rapidly, and a white line of cres t e d waves beneath it gave warn i n g of an a p p r o a c h i n g squall, w h i c h soon came down w i t h great force, and compelled us to seek shelter in Whi s k y Bay. "As soon as the m o r n i n g dawned, p r e p a r a t i o n s were made for s t e aming our harbour of refuge. Fogs, so common in Lake Superior, began to about 9 A . M., and continued throughout the day... out of appear "In consequence of the v a r i a t i o n of the compass being r e p o r t e d to be much a f f e c t e d by local attractions in this part of Lake Superior, two of our I n dians were placed in the bow to look out for land at the a p p roach of night, and in addition to the usual watch, the captain, mate, and some of the p a s