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The Detroit ) Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 20, No. 10 June, 1967 New Home for the KEEWATIN A GoNILE RAIN was falling as the Canadian Pacific Railway's old graceful passenger steamer KEEWATIN pulled away from her dock at Port McNicoll on Saturday, June 24, 1967. It was an histor- ic moment, the last time Port McNicoll would see the Glasgow— built beauty that had been a familiar sight on the watetfront for 55 years. THE KEE was under tow of the McQueen Marine, Ltd., tug AMHERST— BURG for the long voyage up Georgian Bay, across the northern end of Lake Huron, through the Straits of Mackinac and down Lake Michigan to the village of Saugatuck, on the Kalamazoo River. Theré she is to remain as a reminder of the gracious days when such passenger boats plied Great Lakes waters in great numbers. TOGETHER with her sistership, the ASSINIBOIA, the KEEWATIN was removed from her old passenger run between Port McNicoll and the Canadian Lakehead ports of Fort William-Port Arthur as a result of newly-imposed Department of Transport rulings on fire safety and sewage disposal, Their last passengers were carried