Unfortunately, the ship is not accessible to people with special needs. S.S. KEEWATIN S.S. KEEWATIN A TRULY GREAT TREASURE TELLING A STORY OF ’S TOUR CONTACT AND INFORMATION S.S. KEEWATIN 1907- COMPLETION OF CONFEDERATION 311 Talbot St., 2016 Port McNicoll, ON L0K 1R0 CANADA 1-855-533-9284 www.sskeewatin.com

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Midland Penetang 400 12 SETTING THE STAGE. 93 As relics go, the S.S. Keewatin is certainly one of the Collingwood 11 largest “encompassing” Canadian artifacts. Built in 1907 Lake this 350-foot long, three story high, eight million pound Simcoe vessel is older than the Titanic, predates the First World War by seven years, was built at the height of the industrial Barrie Revolution, moved hundreds of thousands of tons of grain 400 and flour and tens of thousands of passengers until 1965 and has survived intact to this day while every other vessel from the Edwardian period (1900-1920) has not. Although her working life involved the inland waterways of the Great Lakes, her beginnings came from Quebec with the building of Confederation and the founding of The .

Toronto Sir George-Etienne Cartier, PC. (Born in 401 Quebec September 6, 1814 – May 20, $32 MILLION VALUATION 1873) was a Canadian statesman and Lake (BUT ACTUALLY PRICELESS) Father of Confederation. Ontario www.sskeewatin.com The Macdonald Cartier 401 Highway is named after him and our first Prime Minister S.S. KEEWATIN Sir John A. Macdonald). In the Canadian Parliament on April VISIT THIS GREAT CANADIAN TREASURE 26, 1872, Cartier introduced a bill called the Pacific Railway HOW TO BOOK A TOUR FOR GROUPS OF 15 OR Act and with that MORE. railway acts, the British Co- lumbia and Manitoba Acts, the Bill for purchase and transfer The SS KEEWATIN offers a 90 minute prearranged tour that of Rupert’s Land, Canal Acts, Steamship Acts, Militia and includes all decks and the engine room escorted in groups Fortification Bills, acts for the reformation of Quebec law of 15. Our knowledgeable tour guides are well versed in the and land tenure. All in all, acts for the creation and survival history of not only KEEWATIN but the local community. of the Dominion of Canada. The Canadian Pacific Railway AMAZING GRACE. NOT ANOTHER SHIP LIKE HER Company was incorporated February 16, 1881, by a group of We are in PORT McNICOLL which is part of THE HEART OF businessmen, to carry out building a national rail IN THE WORLD! GEORGIAN BAY. link and won out in a bid for Government favour. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company, headed by George Many first time KEEWATIN visitors when asked of their We are open from Victoria Day in May until Thanksgiving in Stephen as president of a large shipping concern, obtained impression of the ship after their tour have a common October from 9am until 4 pm for tours. We are NOT weather the contract to build the national rail system. answer, “I wasn’t expecting that”. And why would you. In a sensitive. Open rain or shine! world of reproduction attractions many people don’t realize KEEWATIN is the “real deal’. When you board you see exactly what passengers have seen since 1907. The rooms, the hallways, the lounges, the working engines are all real. The furniture, the carpets, the art, the stained glass and carved mahogany walls are all original. The dishes on the dining tables, the silverware, the kitchen utensils, the charts in the Captains lounge. All used by people that travelled the Great Lakes on her. It is truly amazing, especially when our volunteers have been able to collect and add period clothing and personal artifacts to the staging of the rooms.

$32 MILLION VALUATION. HOW DID PEOPLE GET WEST AND GRAIN COME A recent valuation of KEEWATIN EAST? by an independent appraiser sets $32,000,000 as the value In 1882 Canadian Pacific Railway founded the CPR Great of ship and contents. Keewatin Lakes service that ran from the bottom of Georgian Bay in is a “Historic Destination” not a Southern Ontario to the top of Lake Superior at Fort museum. You walk the halls, sit in William. It provided a 2 ½ day service that would take the chairs, experience the engine a steam train (when they started to run) four days and room. You will see and feel what it had a frequency that could deliver far more grain and all those people many years ago passengers than rail and a cheaper price. Keewatin joined experienced. KEEWATIN floats in a fleet of three Clyde built premium vessels in 1907 along 30 feet of water. For 108 years old with a sister ship Assiniboia. Both ships were built in Goven she is very much alive. Scotland. This line ran until 1965 when disbanded.