At the end of a dead end street in the small community of Port McNicoll, Ont., a vast steamship older than the Titanic sits in the cold Georgian Bay waters.
Once a vital stop along a Canadian Pacific Railway shipping route, Port McNicoll is now home to only a few thousand people, along with one of the world’s largest remaining Edwardian steamships: the S.S. Keewatin.
But not for much longer.
The Keewatin is bound for a new home, having been donated by longtime owner Skyline Investments Inc. to the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston, Ont., some 350 kilometres away.
If it makes the
