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New Passenger Wharf Bulk-Head Wall Proposed Brick Warehouse Also Included in Federal Scheme as Well as Dredging Inner Harbor . Collingwood, March 9 (Special)— An estimated sum of over two million dollars will be spent on a scheme for improvements and developments along the Collingwood waterfront in next three years, according 1_ the to a notification sent to the president of the Collingwood Board of Trade fro'm the Dominion Department of Public Works. Mr. J. N. Bourrie, chairman of the local Board of Trade, outlined the proposed program and stated that the work would be started just as soon as.the labor and material situation gets back to normal. The chairman outlined the following plans which have already been submitted to the Department of Works: The removal of existing municipal docks and crib berths for a new passenger wharf and bulk-head wall. Construction of a passenger wharf 400 feet long by 60 feet wide and a bulkhead wall 390 feet long. A brick wharehouse 100 ft. by 40 ft. to replace the building which was burned to the ground last fall. Di edging of the inner harbor to provide adequate draught for large ships. Extension of the coal dock area. Construction of a small craft wharf and approach including shelter and lighting, system. Construction of a new mooring dock 325 ft. long. Further construction of wharves to provide mooring facilities along the East Harbor face 1,530 linear feet. The dredging will be extensive and will take in the entire length of the inner harbor to provide a draught of 19 feet in approach to the shipyards and turning room to take ships up to 640 feet in length. Mr. Bourrie stated that every ef New Cargo Vessel resume salvage jobj^l ks Brings Her First Overseas Load to Saint John Saint John, N.B., March 9—The United Kingdom and Canada were linked again by. the famous "Beaver" j Line of fast freighters yesterday as | the Canadian Pacific's new cargo' liner, Beaverdell, started discharging 5,000 tonsofcargo at this busy port. Official civic greetings were given to Capt. B. B. Grant by Mayor J. D. | McKenna, soon after the Beaverdell had docked to the shrill welcome of ! scores of ship and factory whistles.' Carrying less than half her normal cargo 'capacity, the trim new turbo ' electric fast freighter made her first crossing of the North Atlantic from i Mersey in seven days, ten hours and' 54 minutes. During the summer the! j Beaverdell and three sister "Beavers" i | which will follow her into the ser- j [vice, will dock in Montreal. The "Dell" is the first of four i turbo electric vessels being built in the United Kingdom for the Canadian Pacific Steamships to replace four ships lost during the war. fort would be made to get started on ' have issued their hPs^nf 3i th. „n,k without unnecessary delay. "l-jLlssu.eci th?lr llsts of vessel ap WUU1U UC Lila^i^ i.\> t,^-.. .j*,** „~*» .... the work without unnecessary delay He pointed out that the plan would take until 1949 to complete but the first project would be the much arehouse EXPECT BUSY SEASON hi J Q<*r The 1946 shipping season is expected to be one of the heaviest on record, according to officials at Fort William. Harbor ice-breaking operations at the lakeshead are expected to commence about March 15, and the tug James Whalen is being given a final checkup and minor repairs in readiness for ice-breaking. Lakeshead shipping companie which sank at the Clay- ,, ____, coal docks Nov. 20, has been resumed after a month's delay due to severe weather, and is expected to be completed in a week or ten days. The vessel then will be taken to Kingston for repairs. Resting on the bottom with only the superstructure showing, the Outarde is nearly ready to be raised. Salvagers worked during the early winter and had the coffer-dam nearly completed when forced to abandon the work due to cold and gales. The tug Rival is breaking the ice around the freighter and the barge Londonderry is housing the salvage workers. WATCH COAL MINERS Great Lakes shipping interests, generally, are not speeding preparations for the opening of navigation and are more^ concerned over the threatened strike of coal miners than they are over lake ice conditions. Many Lower Lakes harbors are as free of ice as Toronto or Hamilton and there is a prospect that some of the package freighters that have wintered at Lake Ontario ports may be fitted out and ready to sail as soon as Kingston harbor and the St. Lawrence river are open. needed passenger wharf neeaea pabseusei wnai-a., wa^n^^o^ and the dredging of the inner harbor in the immediate vicinity of the new wharf. ----- „* .^.m^v.* appointments and crews are expected 1 to arrive shortly. EIGHT VESSELS SOLD Six 10,000-ton freighters have been , sold by the government-owned JaijijJ SteamsrJft.JJfl-JjgJhe Montreal Ship- j pmgCoTTLto-^wnich will operate I three of the vessels for the Montshlr Lines Ltd., and three for Andro; Shipping Co. The freighters are the Sunalta Park, Alexandra Park, Gaspedia Park, Noranda Park, Lakeside Park and Seven Oaks Park. Park Steamships also sold the freighters Dundern Park and Portland Park to the March Shipping Agency, Ltd. Fishing Season Opens Port Dover, March 11.—The fishing season along Lake Erie's north shore has opened, an unusually early start for commercial boats. Out of Port Dover in the last week have gone the tugs Clara B, Stewart B, Donna K, Trimac II and the H. H. Misner tug. Fishermen usually do not expect an opening until about March 15. AGROUND EAKLY/ |fli^yX/ . The Tomlinson Line freighter, Sierra, 6,000 tons, started her carry- j ing season with a hoodoo aboard prompted an earlier opening of U locks at Sault Ste. Marie. The loc will be in operation two wee ahead of schedule. Six freights me Bcaouu wiui a nooaoo aboard «"»" oi suireuuie. six ireigmt A tugmens' strike forced the Sierra's are chartered to carry coal cargc nwnprs tn <=hif* *ho ™™1 '-------from Tnlorin tn tho Cnr. =«.-< fK- f" I owners to shift the vessel from Ecorse, Mich., where she was laid up. 'to the Canadian side of the Detroit river to fit out. Up-bound with hei first coal cargo of the season, the Sierra went aground a mile north of Livingston Channel light. Two tugs failed to release her and now a lighter is alongside taking out a part of her cargo to give the tugs a chance. WILL TAKE MONTH . It is estimated it will take more than a month to build a new coffer dam for the long drawn-out job of salvaging the freighter, Outarde. which is sunk at Clayton, N.Y. She was raised less than a week ago from 36-feet bootom to 18-feet draught, but shifting water in her hold listed her and sank her again. TWO WEEKS AHEAD Emergency requirements of coal, for a Canadian steel mill have I -------------- — ------., —..- *.«*to.- from Toledo to the Soo and the fii will clear at the end of the wee Meantime the U.S. icebreaki Mackinac, is clearing St. Marys riv channels and will convoy the cc carriers through the 12 to 16 inch of ice still in the locks areas.