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The assets of the Turner Ferry Company (founded 1882) were bought by the John Doty Engine & Ferry Company, which in turn merged with A.J. Tymon's Island Ferry Company in 1892 to form the Toronto Ferry Company. [18] [19] Bluebell in 1920. Built by the Toronto Ferry Company in 1906, the ship ferried people to the islands until it was retired in 1955.
William Inglis is a Toronto Island ferry operated by the Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division of the City of Toronto government (City of Toronto). [2] The ferry serves the Toronto Islands from a dock at Jack Layton Ferry Terminal in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It entered service in 1935, initially known as the "Shamrock". [3] The ...
The ferry was commissioned in 1939, built by Toronto Dry Dock Ltd. [5] [6] Her namesake was a former Alderman and Mayor, who had been the founding chairman of the Toronto Transportation Commission, which at the time the ferry was built, ran the ferries to the island.
The Jack Layton Ferry Terminal (formerly called the Toronto Island Ferry Docks) is the ferry slip for Toronto Island ferries operated by the City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division. Three ferry routes provide transportation between mainland Toronto and Centre Island, Hanlan's Point and Ward's Island in the Toronto Islands , with ...
MS Chi-Cheemaun is a Canadian passenger and vehicle ferry in Ontario, Canada, which traverses Lake Huron between Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula and South Baymouth on Manitoulin Island. The ferry connects the two geographically separate portions of Highway 6 and is the vessel that replaced MS Norgoma and SS Norisle in 1974.
Thomas Rennie is a 74-year-old Toronto Island ferry operated by the Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division of the City of Toronto government. [4] She entered service in 1951, the most recent of the three ferries that bring visitors to the Toronto Islands during the summer months. [5] She was named after a former member of the Toronto Harbour ...
The HSC Virgen de Coromoto is an 86 m (282 ft) fast catamaran ferry operated by Consolidada de Ferrys C.A. in Venezuela.It was built in Australia in 2004 for a fast ferry service on Lake Ontario between Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Rochester, New York, United States.
The Ongiara operates from the mainland ferry terminal over to Hanlan's Point and Wards Island terminals. The ferry can operate year-round as long as the inner harbour is ice free; it is the only ferry to operate in winter. Because of the Ongiara's small size, island residents are used to winds causing a hard docking. [3]