Great Lakes Region (North America) -- Description and travel
Subject
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Frank Megan letters
Collection – Box GLMMS 28, Folder: 10
Identifier: GLMMS-1094
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of letters describing a trip from Port Colborne, ON, to Duluth, MN, on the steamer STADACONA in August of 1915. Megan was traveling as a passenger on the vessel.
Dates:
Creation: August 1915
Found in:
Center for Archival Collections
Great Lakes Transportation Timetables and Brochures collection
Collection
Identifier: GLMS-0054
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...
Dates:
Creation: 1859-2019; Creation: Majority of material found within 1884-1990
Found in:
Center for Archival Collections
Additional filters:
Name
- Ann Arbor Railroad Company 1
- Arnold Transit Company 1
- Bob-Lo Amusement Park (Ont.) 1
- Canada Steamship Lines 1
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company 1
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- Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Transit Company 1
- Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company 1
- Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company 1
- Megan, Frank 1
- Owen Sound Transportation Company 1
- Parker Boat Line 1
- Stadacona (ship) 1
- Straits Transit, Inc. 1
- Wisconsin & Michigan Steamship Company (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1
Subject Source
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Subject Term Type
- Geographic
- Great Lakes Region (North America)
- Topical
- Description and travel