Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Telescope, v. 14, n. 6 (June 1965), p. 122

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June TELESCOPE 122 INSTITUTE PAGE COMING MEETINGS Meeting 25 June 1965 Museum, 8 p.m. Annual Friday Dossin This is our annual election meeting at which the results are announced from ballots received through the mail for six new directors -on the Board. At this meeting, the Board will choose its slate of officers for the coming year. " Annual Bob-Lo Cruise Wednesday 28 July From foot of Woodward, 6 p.m. This is our "audience participation" meeting. Notice that it falls on a Wednesday night, there being no six o'clock boat to Bob-Lo on Fridays. Plan to join us. ' Business Meeting Friday 27 August Dossin Museum, 8 p.m. Visitors are always welcome to these meetings of the Board of Directors. * * * This issue contains no Curator's Corner column. Robert E. Lee and consort have embarked upon a vaca= tion voyage to New England. We did receive on entry from their "log, " however. They stopped by the new Seaway Inn Motel at Thorold, Ontar- io, high on a hill overlooking Lock 7 of the Welland Canal "where the steamships climb the mountain." For inclement weather one can stand inâ€" side and monitor the passing trafa fic behind picture windows. Out of season rate for two people was $10, so expect a season rate a little higher. The Inn is at 24 Chapel St. (telephone 227-6177); tell them you are an Institute member, and you will be assured a reservation if at all possible. One of the most colorful magazines on worldwide marine matters is put out by Mobil Oil in consideration of its marine fuels and lubrications. Each issue usually features a major world seaport, and usually has a beautiful center spread of some ves= selo-a new liner, or perhaps a sailâ€" ing ship. We were pleased to see in Compass' May-June issue a brief ar» ticle on the Great Lakes with photo- graphs by our Institute Treasurer Jim McDonald. Speaking of our members appearing in print, we also notice member Jos- eph Barr in a photo for the 1965 Georgian Bay Line folder for South American cruises to Duluth. We recently had a reunion with Mr. Winky the Ship's Cat in Niles, Mich- igan. Once Cap' Johnston's compan- ion on. the old museum ship J. T. Wing, Winky is now about 12 years old, a bit lame in one leg, but oth- erwise as independent as ever. Few cats today have lived both aboard a three-masted schooner and now in a century - old log cabin (which he shares with Mrs. Joseph E. Johnston. Gertrude Johnston, Cap's widow, runs the Fort St. Joseph Museum in Niles (behind the city hall), which has a fine collection of Indian exhibits. GPB --From a 1958 copy of Telescope

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