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Page 38 Three Long and Two Short for Assiniboia and Keewatin By Gordon P. Bugbee Reprinted from Sept., 1965 Telescope This year 2007 marks the 100th Anniversary of the passenger vessel KEEWATIN. Word comes that the Canadian Pacific Railway will end its Great Lakes steamship services at the close of this shipping season. The two liners ASSINIBOIA and KEEWATIN have now finished carrying their summer loads of passengers between Port McNicoll on Georgian Bay and Fort William at Lake Superior's Canadian lakehead. But they continue in autumn service carrying freight and a few passengers on their scheduled runs. When they tie up for this winter, an era will pass. For eighty-two years the Canadian Pacific has served this route. The Clyde-built iron propellers ALBERTA, ALGOMA and ATHAB ASKA of 1884 were the first ships built for this line. Supposedly, they furnished a temporary lake link for two portions of a transcontinental railroad that until 1886 remained to be joined around Lake Superior and Georgian Bay. But the steamers were not diverted to other routes as expected when the railroad was finished. ALGOMA was lost off Isle Royale in late 1885, and the line replaced her in 1889 with the