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The Oshawa Times, 25 Jun 1960, p. 35

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SATURDAY, JUNE ONTARIO TODAY : PAGE NINETEEN Technical Surveys, Canadian Hydrographic Service, Chart Distribution Office, 249 Queen street, Ottawa.. These charts are to boat owners and operators what road maps are to motorists. They are bargain insurance at a dollar a copy. Soundings are given in feet on some maps and fathoms on others. Even the lake bottoms are described. Shore contours, rivers, bays and harbor areas are well defined. Lighthouses, beacons, buoys and other navigation aids are pin-pointed. You will want to know draft limitations. For ex- ample, you can take craft with a draft of eight feet from Trenton for 89 miles up the Trent system to Lock 19 at Peterborough, but from there through the Kawarthas, Lakes Simcoe and Couchiching and the Severn River to Swift's Rapids the draft limit is six feet, and from Swift's Rapids to Big Chute on the Smooth power and comfort for weekends at the lake A hes nd cons rei om meen sn ovens | JONSON OUESeNIS, outperforms all others! to Port Severn on Georgian Bay. The Thousand Islands of the upper St. Lawrence River and St. Lawrence Seaway from Kingston, via Gananoque, Brockville, Prescott, Iroquois Canal and Cornwall. The Rideau waterway, 120 miles of lakes, locks and rivers, connecting Kingston, at the northeast corner of Lake Ontario, and Ottawa, the nation's capital, on the Ottawa River. The Ottawa River, from the city of Ottawa to the St. Lawrence River. A look at the map will show that all these cruise- ways are connected. In other words, you could start at Ottawa, go down the river to the St. Lawrence, travel SO ERR 3 ¢ x the Seaway to Kingston, and return to Ottawa by way 1 only one minute of the Rideau chain; or go from Kingston on Lake On- from the dock tario to Trenton, through the Trent-Severn system to Georgian Bay, and return to Kingston by way of Lake Huron, the St. Clair River, and Lake Erie; or go on to the Lakhead through the North Channel, past Sault Ste Marie and into Lake Superior. Indeed, the routes are so many and so diverse that it would take a lifetime of cruising to exhaust their COMPLETELY NEW possibilities. And even so, the routes open to canoes and light ~ Jol 11, 15S 0) ] boats have not been touched. There are the old voy- ageur routes from the Ottawa to Lake Nipissing and NO OTHER OUTBOARD CAN MATCH IT! down the French River to Georgi Bay; the Al - . ow e Soren Davie seo ® Proven Performance © Quieter than ever NEW FEATURES FOR 1960 quin Park complex of lakes, rivers and portages, in- cluding the Park-Muskoka-Georgian Bay; possibilities ® Mightier Power ® Qutstanding Speed on the one hand and the Algonquin-Madawaska-Otttawa ® Greater Economy PY Superior Service routes on the other. In the northwest of the province is the beautiful Quetico wilderness area, with its numerous FEATURE FOR FEATURE--DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR bo : rd ie 1 : 3 NEW CHOICE OF PROPEL- at and canoe routes. And In between a thousan LERS for fect boat . ; a 3 0 oO mM [od A MN Ee | and ey this, waterways still largely unexplored. i On Super V-75, Super A word of caution should be given here. If you plan a A 2080 Soa nose i Gil . bli : MEET YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD on cruising in unfamiliar waters, make thorough in- JOHNSON DEALER vestigations before you start. Obtain hydrographic or' We : Before you buy any boating equipment, nautical charts from the Department of Mines and . } see your Johnson dealer. You can depend - on his superior products, expert service and sound, friendly advice on any boating NEW HIGH-SPEED LOWER question. Look him up in the yellow pages UNIT GEAR CASE, stream- ce "» lined to knife through under "Outboard Motors", and give him the water at terrific how a call right now. jPeeds. On Super V-75 Write for colourful free catalogue. hp and they're nearly a mile ¥' down the lake! PLUS FAMOUS Made in Canada by PR a Y IN EVERY SEA-HORSE @ Johnson moroRs RO Peterborough, Canada All H.P. OBC rated a division of Outboard Marine Corporation of Canada Lid, Convenient Terms CANADA'S LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF OUTBOARD MOTORS CANADIAN See the 1960 Johnson Sea-horses now at: SMITH SPORTS 353 King St. W OSHAWA, ONTARIO New boats and motors combine design and power with safety C oO U N T Y S P (0) R T ro) 149 Brock St. N. WHITBY, ONTARIO

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