Canada Steamship Lines

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One year and two months of issues of a monthly magazine on maritime topics produced by Canada Steamship Lines.

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Letters and memoranda relating to supplies, company instructions/procedures, and maintenance issues.

Abstract Literature from Great Lakes transportation companies promotes the use of the lake vessels at their disposal by the casual tourist traveler. Items reflect the mass marketing of the idea that travel in the Great Lakes region is feasible on regularly scheduled routes from ports readily accesible to much of the United States and Canada by rail or highway. The Lake Michigan routes from Ludington and Muskegon, Michigan to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois are well documented. Ferry...

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Letter to Skip Gillham describes a voyage by the M/V Fort Saint Louis to ports around Frobisher Bay, in the Arctic. Written by Gilbert Lacey, captain of the vessel.

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Master's scrap logbooks for April 8-December 16, 1960, and April 28-December 8, 1965.

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Repair and maintenance request forms for routine renovation, welding, and repair needs.

Scope and Contents The Siegfried collection contains a wide variety of materials that mainly relate to passenger cruises on a wide variety of Great Lakes and international liners in the pre-1960s era. Materials include publications, brochures and timetables, menus, photographs, and a small amount of correspondence. Also present is a scrapbook of Great Lakes passenger travel during the 1920s that features timetables, deck plans, photographs, and excerpts from publications. Most of the scrapbook material appears...

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Summary transcripts of logs of several Great Lakes vessels created by Mark Shumaker. Data normally includes date, type of cargo loaded/unloaded, source port, and destination port.