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TELESCOPE Page 31 ONTARIO EDITORIAL BUREAU KEEWATIN sails the St. Marys River near the Soo sometime before her retire- ment in 1965. MEMORIES OF THE CPR SHIPS By SKIP GILLHAM It is difficult to believe that thirteen years have elapsed since the Canadian Pacific Railway ceased regular passenger steamer service on the upper Great Lakes. Their last two vessels, Assiniboia and Keewatin, are probably remem- bered by most readers. Today, Canadian Pacific is a diversified company with interests in air, water, rail and truck transportation; the company also operates a series of first class hotels at var- ious locations across Canada. It was not always this way. Canadian Pacific was originally just a railway. It became the company's task in the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century to link the parts of Canada in an efficient rail network. Private capital and government assistance united to push