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er Haseltine Bae 159 51 Bees 3° Mich. TRANSIT WILLIAM ARMSTRONG CHARLES LYON OGDENSBURG PRESCOTONT SICAMOUS NOTE: NOTE: NOTE: David Glick es ncampbel! Robert pele Pace Presiden Secretar: 0945 We Chicago 15758Cleveland 877 Untverstey EA Decreit 28, Mich. Lincoln Park, Mich. Grosse Pte. CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY (Continued from last month) ST.LAWRENCE RIVER CAR FERRIES Wooden vessel, apparently owned in Prescott and chartered for the car gerry route in the Seventies. (Not to be confused with several others name SIT elsewhere on the Great Lakes, including two at Detroit. Necden car ferry, 1876 Ogdensburg by A.Woods. 105 X 31 X 9. High pressure ngines, screw propulsion, Later used as a drill barge and renamed MONS MEG Bae 19. Steel car ferry, 1908 Toronto by Polson Iron Works. 280 X 40 X 20, Twin fore-and-aft engines built by Polson. Cut down to a stone scow in the 30s. Steel car float or barge car eres: 1930 Lorain by American Shipbuilding Co. 290X 45X12. Handled by tug. Steel tus, 1930, Lauzon-Levis, Quebec, by Davie Shipbuilding & Repair Co, 120 X 28K 12, Winton diesel éngines geared to electric moto! (Editor's Note: Through an oversight, the following vessel was left out of Father Dowling's list so is inserted here.) 1913 Port arthur by Western D.D. & S3. Co. Steel sternwheel express passeng- er vessel, 205 X 39 X 7. Twin horizontal compound engines built by American SB. Co. Shipped knockdown to Oksnagan Landing, B.C. and set up and launched there for service on the Okanagan Valley waterway system. Abandoned, 1940s. ng the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late 70s sev- eral Canadian Great Lakes steamers were char‘ rened briefly at various times to carry supplies to the builders. We have isted these since they did not participate in the actual transportation pecan of the CPR. Regarding the colors of the CPR vessels, they seem to have had black hulls ac! rr and generally white cabins in the earl: rs. The stacks o1 ally were black with two red bands and a narrow white between them, a color set. up quite similar to that used by the Algoma Central freighters at Later th wh: a black stack. Par 1908 the stack color was changed to yellow with black top, to whi e CPR houseflag of red ant the Assiniboia id white squres interposed was added in the late hoes Keewatin came out in white hull, which they have carried ever since. Manitoba was pa: in_her last years. Most of the British Columbia vessels were white with yellow and black stack. The "Laker" Nootka had a black hul: In recent years several small chartered German "Salties" have carried the words “Canadian Pacific Lakes Service" on their sides, These vessels are a Great Lakes extension for freight only of Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, Ltd., which today is only very remotely connected with the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J. GEORGE AYOUB has a favorite vantage point at the Iroquois lock to get pic- tures of the boats. He made a fast run to this spot when he heard that Paterson's new OAs ee was making her first trip. This antes reward, a fine view of this. fine pread