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ELMGLEN and FERNGLEN at Toronto and SPRUCEGLEN at Goderich. Soo River's successor, Parrish and Heimbecker, will utilize the bow thruster components from ELMGLEN and SPRUCEGLEN for installation in WILLOWGLEN over the coming Winter layup. *** Western Metals of Thunder Bay exercised its options on the purchase of two former USS ore carriers long-idle at Duluth. On October 15th, the steamers HORACE JOHNSON and JOHN HULST began their moves to the scrappers at the Canadian Lakehead. *** Pioneer Shipping Ltd.'s new Govan-built bulker SASKATCHEWAN PIONEER arrived in the Welland Canal on her delivery trip on October 9th, enroute to formal christening ceremonies at Thunder Bay. She and her two Misener-owned sisters, SELKIRK SETTLER and CANADA MARQUIS, earlier arrivals this Summer, are scheduled for salt-water operation this Winter in the grain trades. *** Collingwood Shipyards launched CSL's straight-deck motorship PRAIRIE HARVEST (not HARVESTER) at 11:55 AM on October 18th. Her place on the building ways there will not be occupied until a Merch when for CSL for 1985 delivery. Following that will be a 272-foot, Type 1100, Navaids Tender/Icebreaker for the Canadian Coast Guard. Powered by a 8,500 hp diesel electric engine, the $50 Milion craft is scheduled for delivery in 1986. *** Another Great Lakes ore cargo record was set recently at Escanaba. American Steamship's motor vessel INDIANA HARBOR loaded 67,896 gross tons for Lower Lake Michigan's steel district on September lst. *** By mid-October, dismantling of Westdale's LEADALE was more than half complete at Ramey's Bend near Port Colborne, with the hull of NORDALE reduced to waterline levels at the old Algoma Steel plant dock there. *** The former Corps of Engineers tug MARQUETTE has been acquired by the Great Lakes Naval and Maritime Museum at Chicago. *** The Straits' steam railferry CHIEF WAWATAM was towed out of St. Ignace by Selvick tugs on October 5th enroute to Sturgeon Bay's Bay Shipbuilding yard for drydocking and survey. Her future is on the line pending results of inspections. Talks began in Lansing in early October concerning a tentative date of 1992 when construction could start on a second big lock at the American Soo. Site of the building would be the present locations of the Davis and Sabin Locks. Present estimates of the new lock's cost are in the neighborhood of $375 Million, *** Consideration is again being given to the establishment of ferry service between Detour Village and Meldrum Bay on Manitoulin Island. Facilities are in better shape now than they were in 1977, when the idea was first Proposed. The ferry envisioned for the run the MARINE CRUISER, presently idle at Halifax. She has a 60-car capacity. Operation of the proposed service would be handled by Ontario Development Corporation, *** Lower Lake St. Clair's 60-foot Peche Island Rear Range Lighthouse, constructed in 1908, was officially extinguished in September of 1982. In October of that year, Michigan Bank - Port Huron - acquired the lighthouse for restoration on the waterfront at Marine City's Waterworks Park where dedication ceremonies were held this past August 21st. *** By the first week in October, Hanna's 1,000-foot GEORGE A. STINSON had been placed on the big drydock at Bay Ship's Sturgeon Bay yard for her 5-year survey and replacement of unloading boom. Also at the yard at the time was the former C&O Lake Michigan carferry BADGER. *** U.S. Steel has returned its steamer CASON J. CALLAWAY to operation. Marsh Engineering, Ltd., of Port Colborne and Port Weller Dry Docks Ltd., have joined forces in the renovation of the former E. B. McGee drydock opposite Marine Salvage's scrap yard at Ramey's Bend on the Welland Canal near Port Colborne. The site will be remembered as the location where the canaller BELVOIR (ii) was constructed, Q&O's steamer GOLDEN was converted from a tanker a) IMPERIAL WOODBEND to a bulk carrier in 1954, and where the Toronto-based side-wheel steam ferry TRILLIUM was restored in 1976. The passenger ferry PELEE ISLANDER cleared the restored drydock on October 7th following a three week stay for survey and renovation. *** The Society's Historian of the Year, Dan McCormick, informs us that his book, "The Wishbone Fleet," is out of print. We regret any inconvenience caused by this oversight. a Q