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TELESCOPE Page 2 MEMBERSHIP NOTES @ Attached to this issue is your membership card for 1986. By attaching it to the cover, we saved nearly five hundred dollars in first-class postage. Since most of our members have subscriptions to at least three Great Lakes marine publications, we're trying to keep our costs down so you won't have to make a choice to cancel one of your subscriptions. The Dossin Museum will have an exhibit at the Michigan Boat Show at Cobo Hall in Detroit from February lst to February 9th. Members volunteering to work in the museum's booth will be refunded their parking fee. Those interested in working in the booth should call the museum at 267-6440. The museum gift shop is selling a packet of launching photos of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Mr. Fred Plofchan was a newspaper photographer at the launching and his photo series show the Fitz waiting on the blocks and then follows her down into the water after the ropes were cut. All the 8 x 10, black & white photos were taken of the stern from shore and are printed on glossy paper. The set of twelve photos are $50.00 plus $2.00 for first-class postage. Write to: Dossin Museum, 100 Strand/Belle Isle, Detroit, MI. 48207. MEETING NOTICES @ The January 17th entertainment meeting will be member's slide night. Members are invited to bring fifteen of their favorite slides. (See notice on page 27.) Our guest speaker for the March 21st meeting will be a representative from the Algoma Central Railway Marine Division. Future enter- tainment meetings are scheduled for May 16 and November 21st. Entertainment meetings begin at 8 p.m. at the museum. Future business meetings (all members are invited to attend) will be held on February 21, April 18, June 20, August 15 and October 17. At the February business meeting, the election ballot will be finalized for the May issue of Telescope. All members interested in having their name on the ballot should contact President David McDonald at the museum's address for further information. CONTENTS e@ Membership Notes, Meeting Notices, etc. 2 Lake Winnipeg Goes For Scrap by Skip Gillham 3 An Historical Remembrance: EKighty Years Ago . The Argo Grounded Off Ottawa Beach by Steve Elve 8 Shipbuilding Activities on Lake Ontario by Richard Palmer 12 Great Lakes & Seaway News Edited by Don Richards 14 January Entertainment Meeting Notice 27 Published at Detroit, Michigan by the GREAT LAKES MARITIME INSTITUTE ©All rights reserved. Printed in the United States by Macomb Printing Specialties. OUR COVER PICTURE . . . As economic conditions continue to dictate which ships wili sail, shipping companies are scrapping vessels that are too expensive to operate. Nipigon Transport Ltd. sent the Lake Winnipeg to the scrapyard last year. This photo of her in the Welland Canal was taken from a postcard in the museum's collection. fa Telescope is produced with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit.