View of harbour and S.S. Ontario No. 1

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Description

Ontario No. 1 cost about $375,000, was 317 feet long, 54.2 foot beam, 16 1/2 foot draft, speed 13-15mph, capacity of 28 loaded coal cars, 1,000 passengers, berths for 90 people

Notes

The Ontario Car Ferry company was formed in 1905 in a joint venture between the Grand Trunk Railway and the Buffalo, Rochester and Pennsylvania Railroad. The two ferries based in Cobourg also perfomed the secondary function of taking passengers and sometimes their cars across Lake Ontario. Business expanded so extensively that a second ship was ordered in 1915 from the Polson Iron Works also of Toronto. She was launched in August, and carried her first load of cargo on September 15th, also with Captain Forrest at the helm. The two ferries gave daily summer passenger service but from the fall to the spring did not offer this service at all

Date of Original

ca. 1910

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