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brian
Moderator
Post Number: 126
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 8:49 pm: | 
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Purser, the Muskoka Steamship & Historical Society has a small museum on Lake Muskoka where the Segwun docks. That's probably the one you heard about. Pretty easy to get to from Hwy 11, but I guess you're a Hwy 69 type.
So you probably only worked the boats while they were ONBL, not any earlier (not trying to age you or anything)? |
purser
Member
Post Number: 4
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 9:04 pm: |
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ONBL is correct. I was hired for summer employment out of high school.My first job was to add another coat of paint to the Aubrey Cosens.Would have been in late 1950's when I began. Further to your note above, is that location in Gravenhurst? |
hummingbird
Member
Post Number: 1
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 9:17 pm: |
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Isn't that even the original building they still run out of today? |
brian
Moderator
Post Number: 128
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 9:18 pm: |
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Yes, the museum is in Gravenhurst.
Do you recognize these boats?
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brian
Moderator
Post Number: 129
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 9:27 pm: |
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That's funny, Hummingbird. Ted would be proud to tell us he has at least added running water. |
purser
Member
Post Number: 5
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 10:28 pm: |
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Aubrey Cosens on the front left.The boat on front right used to travel the southwest arm, can't remember the name (senior moment).The one in the foreground looks like the Grey Owl. That's a good quality pic, Brian. |
brian
Moderator
Post Number: 130
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 26, 2004 - 9:00 am: |
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What I do know is the Modello (left rear) and Vedette (right).
So the Vedette used to do the SW Arm?
I don't remember the Modello in my lifetime. Was it around when you worked there? |
purser
Member
Post Number: 7
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 26, 2004 - 6:14 pm: |
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Brian, Hope you don't mind me calling you a young squirt. The Vedette is right. A buddy of mine worked as purser/deckhand on the Vedette. His name is Jim Dunk. Jim now resides in Alberta.I wish I could remember the Captain's name. He was a character as many of the Captains were. The Naiad once made a trip to Camp Northwoods (north arm), left Temagami at around 7:00 at night to take out a load of boys to meet a train to take them back to the Ohio area. Sam Cote was Capt., Mike Manion was engineer, I was purser/deckhand. We got up to 6 or 8 miles from the camp and were having trouble finding a buoy that Sam was looking for. Mike found it on the 'wrong' side of the boat just before we ran up on a sandbar. Sam Cote, another character, laughed a bit in his own quiet way, threw it in reverse, and we were soon at the camp. I could not believe how these guys could travel 30 miles at night and actually arrive at the destination. Seemed no problem at all for these old salts. |
purser
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Post Number: 8
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 26, 2004 - 9:50 pm: |
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The Modello was not on the scene when I started. The Modello's lifeboat area fooled me. It was much like the Cosens. That's why i made the mistake. Thanks for the museum info. I located their website. Apparently they have the steam engine and condensor of the Naiad there. Not sure where the changeover took place, but the Naiad was diesel powered on Lake Temagami (single diesel). The Aubrey Cosens had twin diesels. |
brian
Moderator
Post Number: 135
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 27, 2004 - 12:03 pm: |
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Squirt. Wouldn't be the first time I was called that. We had an island in the Axe Narrows and I remember in the 1950s watching all the boats that ran on a schedule parade up the lake in the morning - Aubrey always leading - and return separately late in the day. I can't remember who was second -- Vedette, Naiad?
Richard Tatley talks about the Naiad in his book Northern Steamboats. Have you seen it? |
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