Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Detroit Marine Historian, v. 17, n. 8 (April 1964), p. 3

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Photo from F. Kk. McKean Parry Sound, Ontario ALEXANDER HENRY, Canada's powerful icebreaker for use in the upper lakes has been a movie star this winter, according to reports from F. K.}cKean at Parry Sound and W. R. Williams at Penetanguishene. Not that she is about to be lost to Hollywood, though. She has been starring in a doc- umentary, filmed by scientists of the Great Lakes Institute of the Univ- ersity of Toronto, as part of their research program on Georgian Bay. SHE IS SEEN here slicing along easily through 14 inches of blue ice as the scientists' movie camera grinds off Midland, Ont. RESEARCH has been hampered somewhat by the unusually mild weather this winter but there was at least enough ice on Georgian Bay to support the University of ‘oronto cameras while ALEXANDER HENRY was performing in her stellar role. BUT DON'T THINK she has been lovnging around in front of the cameras all winter. ALEXANDER HENRY has also been busy breaking harbor ice so that grain boats could be shifted around at the elevators in various Georgian Bay ports and breaking open channels so the boats could get an early start on the 1964 navigation season.

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