Great Lakes Region (North America) -- Description and travel

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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.

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...