Quebec & Ontario Transportation Company

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The Outarde, one of the firm's vessels, was seriously damaged in 1946. Efforts to salvage the Outarde in 1946.jpg
The Outarde, one of the firm's vessels, was seriously damaged in 1946.

The Quebec and Ontario Transportation Company was a shipping firm in Canada prior to the opening of the St Lawrence Seaway. [1] [2]

Their fleet included:

The Quebec & Ontario Transportation Company vessels included [3]
NameYear
of
build
horsepowergross tonsnotes
Joseph Medill Paterson ex Baie Comeau19546102300
Chicago Tribune 19309702960
Joseph Medill 193510002080Lost with all hands on her delivery voyage from England
Franquelin 193610002097Prince Ungava 1964-67/Jean-Talon 1967-74
New York News ex Belvoir192511002310
Outarde ex Brulin192510502241salvaged after several shipwrecks [4]
Shelter Bay ex New York News19228001670
Washington Times-Herald ex Imari19297501940
Col. Robert R. McCormick ex Manicouagan19556102314
Golden Hind 000000000
Dubo International 1998000000

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References

  1. Allen Sykes, Skip Gillham (1988). "Pulp & Paper Fleet: A History of the Quebec and Ontario Transportation Company". Stonehouse Publications. ISBN   9780919549159 . Retrieved 2014-01-26.
  2. Mark L. Thompson (13 April 2004). "Graveyard of the Lakes". Great Lakes Books. ISBN   9780814332269 . Retrieved 2014-01-26. The last Canadian freighter with wooden hatches was the Pic River, operated at the end of her career by the Quebec and Ontario Transportation Company. The ship had been launched in 1896 as the unpowered barge James Nasmyth.
  3. James Gilmore (1957). "The St Lawrence River Canals Vessel". Maritime History of the Great Lakes . Retrieved 2014-01-26.
  4. "Brulin 1924". Tyne built ships . Retrieved 2013-09-09. 16/10/1932: Grounded & holed on Seven Acre Shoal, Lake Ontario. Subsequently refloated, after a cargo lightening operation and repaired.