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COAL AND MISCELLANEOUS DOCKS OF THE GREAT LAKES--Continued repairing ships up to 253 feet in length and 44 foot beam. Depth of water over the dry dock gate sill is 74% feet (dry dock is located in and approached through the Third Canal below Lock 8). Marine Railway -- nil; patent slips, nil; divers and salv- age equipment from Port Colborne Iron Works. Bunkering: Coal -- Valley Camp Coal Company, up to 350 tons per hour by overhead belt conveyor. : Oils: Imperial Oil Limited, Diesel oil medium, pumping rate up to 170 barrels per hour; Interlake Fuels, Diesel oil, pumping rate up to 20,000 gallons per hour, Bunker "C" fuel oil, pumping rate up to 200 tons per hour. Oil docks also provide Diesel oil from tank trucks. NORMAL CLOSING DATES: Navigation Season -- April 1st to December 15th (usually). EXPORTS: Flour, prepared cereals, cake mixes, grain, crushed stone, cement, pig iron, expanded slag, fair-leads (ships). IMPORTS: Coal, bunker "C" fuel oil, diesel oil, grain and corn, iron ore, steel plate and bars, limestone, flue dust, sand, gravel. CHARGES: Port charges in Port Colborne, Ontario (See St. Lawrence Seaway Tariff of Tolls and St. Lawrence Sea- way Tariff of Charges By-law, as per schedule in "St. Lawrence Seaway Masters' Handbook"). Building, Repairing, or Breaking Up: (a) During navigation season (i) if within a lying up area, the lying up charges; (ii) if not within a lying up area, the side wharfage charges. (b) during non-navigation season, Five Dollars ($5.00) for vessels of up to one hundred (100) tons gross tonnage, and Five Cents (05c) for each ton additional, which rates shall be inclusive of the rates for wintering charges. VARIOUS: Control of navigation; arrivals into and departures from Port Colborne Harbour, upbounds and downbounds through Lock 8 and the Welland Ship Canal are controlled by the ship-to-shore radio station at the Guard Gate, call Station VDX 22. GENERAL: Transportation Canadian National, Candian Pacific, and Toronto, Hamil- ton and Buffalo Railways. Canada Steamship Lines pack- age freighters call en route between head of the Lakes and Montreal. Highways Nos. 3 and 58 from Port Col- borne to outside points. Holidays: Officials available at all times. Port Authority: Welland Canals, St. Lawrence Seaway Authority, Lock 8, Port Colborne, Ontario. Port Regulations and General Information; Seaway regu- lations, obtainable at canal office in Port Colborne, Ontario. PORT DALHOUSIE HARBOUR Lat, 43° 12° Long, 79° 16° Situated on the south shore of Lake Ontario; 27 miles south-east of Hamilton and 3 miles west of Port Weller, the northern en- trance of the Welland Ship Canal. It was prominent as the Lake Ontario terminal port of the old Welland Canal. Port Authority -- The St. Lawrence Seaway Authority, Cornwall, Ontario. Port Charges -- Usual wharfage charges on freight. Wintering charges - 2¢ per gross ton with minimum charge of $10.00. Approaches -- Sailing Directions: Canadian Great Lakes Pilot, Vol. 1; Canadian Chart No. 2070 - Lake Ontario, Plans of Harbours; Canadian Chart No. 2063 - Lake Ontario, Toronto to Niagara River. Channel Depth -- Limiting depth in the channel between the en- trance piers and in the harbour is undetermined. (All depths in channels or alongside wharves on hydrographic charts should be checked carefully against the latest recorded elevation or lake level. This may vary from month to month. Towing Facilities -- Nil. Formalities -- Customs: Customs officers are available from St. SEE OUR COMPLETE LIST OF COAL AND ORE DOCKS 414