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Grew Manufacturing was a Canadian company that manufactured boats from 1882 to 2011. It started as Gidley Boat Works on the shores of Georgian Bay. In the late 1920s, Arthur Grew, a master boat maker from Penetangushine, took over the business and changed its name. The company grew and modernized its product line, eventually switching from wood ...
Waubuno was built by Melancthon Simpson at Port Robinson in 1865 for J. & W. Beatty and Company, [3] and was later owned by the Georgian Bay Transportation Company. [4] Her main purpose was to run passengers and freight from the Northern Railway's railhead at Collingwood to places further north, including Parry Sound and Thunder Bay. [3]
In 1882, the Gidley Boat Works began manufacturing wooden plank boats on the shores of Georgian Bay. One early builder of board or "cedar strip" canoes was Tom Gordon of Lakefield, near Peterborough. [10] Over time, a number of boat-building companies grew up in the Peterborough area; [11] one was the Peterborough Canoe Company. A long-time ...
Big Chute Marine Railway is a patent slip at lock 44 (in the township of Georgian Bay) of the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario, Canada. It works on an inclined plane to carry boats in individual cradles over a change of height of about 60 feet (18 m).
Bay State: 4 November 1862 Screw propeller, sank in storm. Wreck discovered August 2015. [36] Belle Sheridan: 7 November 1880 A 123-foot (37 m) two-masted schooner. She was carrying coal en route to Toronto when caught in the Gale of 1880 and after fighting for hours, sank in 12 feet (3.7 m) of water in Wellers Bay. Only one of the crew of ...
Georgian Bay has been known by several names. To the Ojibwe, it is known as "Spirit Lake".To the Huron-Wendat, it is known as Lake Attigouatan. Samuel de Champlain, the first European to explore and map the area in 1615–1616, called it "La Mer douce" (the sweet/calm/fresh sea), which was a reference to the bay's freshwater. [1]
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