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11. Ship of the M o n t h - cont'd. The P a t e r s o n canallers r e m a i n e d in full service through the 1950s and most of them survived the open i n g of the St. L a w r e n c e Se a w a y in 1959. The advent of the Seaway allo w e d m a n y Canadian fleets to operate their upper lakers down to the St. Lawr ence R iver ports, and some of these fleets scrap p e d their canallers in very short order. Paterson, however, kept its canallers running longer than most fleets and, in fact, built a series of general p u r pose m o torships in the 300- foot size range to replace the canallers in some of the trades that were p e c u l i a r to them. As these new boats came into s e r vice, the older, s t e a m - p o w e r e d cana llers gr a d u a l l y were retired and sold. Of the ships we have m e n t i o n e d so far in this piece, T O RO N D O C was scrapped in 1962 at Toronto, while C O T E A U D O C and P R E S C O D O C were disma n t l e d at the same port in 1963 and 1964, respectively. As it turned out, two of the former St. Lawrence St e a m s h i p boats were the last of the old canallers to sail for the P a t erson fleet. SORELDOC and TROIS D O C ran for Paterson through the 1965 season, and it was not until late in that year that they f i n a l l y were sold for scrapping. T h e y ran right through until D e c e m b e r of 1965, when M a r i n e Salvage Ltd., of Port Colborne, took d e l ivery of them. They were laid up inside the b r e akwall at the foot of Cat h e r i n e Street in H a m i l t o n Harbour, and there they spent the winter. The steamers were b o t h resold to the Steel C o m p a n y of Canada L t d . , and they were b roken up at H a m i l t o n during 1966. The Stelco cutting torches made short w ork of them. * * * Ed. N o t e : It is fun for y our Editor to w r i t e about some of the canallers that he knew so w ell in his youth, and c o n s i d e r s h i m s e l f lucky to be able to recall. SORELDOC always was one of his favourites, m o s t l y because of the u n usual p i l o t h o u s e sunshade that set her apart from her fleetmates. We hope that our readers liked this feature, and we would be plea s e d to hear from any of them wh o might have addit i o n a l information about SORELDOC. In particular, we w o u l d a p p r e c i a t e hearing from anyone who might have a p h o t o graph of the steamer whe n she carried the name PHENICIA. We have many photos of her as CHEYENNE, but none as PHENICIA. * * * * * AN A N N I V E R S A R Y U N C E L E B R A T E D Very few people around the Toro n t o w a t e r f r o n t were aware of the fact, but in October, the Toronto Island passenger ferry W I L L I A M INGLIS turned sixty years of age. For many years, this boat has been the m a i n s t a y of the service to Wa r d ' s Island, as well as holding d o w n most of the pas s e n g e r service on all the routes during spring and autumn. She was built as a r eplacement for the little w o o d e n steamer LUELLA, much b e l o v e d by Islanders of years past, w h i c h had been built in 1880 and was r e t i r e d from service in October, 1934. The INGLIS was the first of the d i e sel-powered, d o u b l e - e n d e d ferryboats, and when she first was plac ed in operation, the local press d e s c r i b e d her as a "palace ferry", somehow m i s t a k i n g her spar t a n interior for luxurious f i t tings. Nevertheless, c o m pared wit h the LUELLA, on w h i c h the captain steered the ship from a posit i o n right amongst the p a s s e n g e r seats, the engine was right in plain view of all aboard, and w h i c h never even was fitted with el ectric lighting, perhaps the WILL I A M INGLIS really was a touch of m o d e r n i ty for the ferry fleet. But W I L L I A M INGLIS has not always been k n o w n by that name. The Toronto Company, which had owned and oper ated the Island ferries for many until they were taken over by the City of Toronto in 1926 and placed the man ag e m e n t of the Toronto T r a n s p o r t a t i o n C o m m i s s i o n in 1927, had many of its ferries after flowers. The n e w diesel boat being the first built under the new management, the T . T . C. planned to continue this Ferry years under named ferry tradi