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Spring is here

Sunday, March 29, 2009 17:28 No Comments

The Coast Guard Ship “Samuel Risley” is in town to pick up supplies and buoys for the 2009 shipping season. This is her second visit to Parry Sound Base in the last week. This is always a welcome site, for it means that the long winter is finally over. We still have some [...]

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Steam Ship Minnehaha

Friday, February 20, 2009 14:24 No Comments

In the closing decades of the 19th century, the steam tug “Minnehaha” was a familiar sight on the Parry Sound waterfront as she chuffed about her business of delivering sawlogs to mills ringing the inner Sound of Parry Sound harbour, and towing lumber-laden sailing schooners out the ship channel. An artical by John Macfie in [...]

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ALL GONE

Monday, February 9, 2009 13:48 No Comments

Only the second week in February and Parry Sound Sifto Salt dock has run out of salt. The last ship unloaded 14,000 tons in the middle of Dec, bringing the total tonnage on the dock to over 100,000 tons. All this has gone to the roads in the northern and eastern part of Ontario. The [...]

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WINTERING ON THE SEGUIN

Sunday, January 18, 2009 11:05 No Comments

M.V. Chippewa III wintering in her berth at the mouth of the Seguin river Parry Sound, Ontario.

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MORE of WINTERS GRIP

Sunday, January 11, 2009 18:21 No Comments

Trimac and Mummery locked in ice for winter - Parry Sound, Ontario.

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WINTERS GRIP

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 11:47 No Comments

“HAPPY NEW YEAR” to all from “Tugfest Georgian Bay”.  We will start this year 2009 with shots of tugs in winters grip in Parry Sound Harbour. It’s our hope that this year will be just as successful as last year. We will be sitting down with the committee chairs to go over this years events [...]

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