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Ships That Never Die 103 The CITY OF LONDON at Fort William, Ont. Photo, courtesy Capt. Frank E. Hamilton. Cie 0k LONDON Catharines, Ont., Wooden passenger one freight peepelier , Pleo in 1865 at Sst. by Louis Shicklund Transportation Go., a company that was incorporated by spec- or the North Shore ial Act of the Parliament of Canada in 1869 This steamer had a length of feet, width 27 feet, depth 11 feet, 6 inches; 450 gross tons. Her firebox boiler burned four- foot hardwood sticks and her single- cylinder high-pressure engine was connected direct to the propeller shaft. It was the lumbering era of Geor- gian Bay and she was used to trans- port bush workers, horses and camp supplies from OQwen Sound, Meaford, Tobermory and Collingwood to lumber- ing centers on the "North Shore" in- cluding Collins Inlet, Little Cur- rent, John Island, Thessalon, Aird Island,Cutler, Macbeth Bay, Spragge, Algoma Mills Blind River, Bruce Mines and Hilton. She was totally destroyed by fire at Collins Inlet on August 20, 1875. W. Re willian@