Aboard the Manitoulin August 13 1945

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My father filmed this journey on the Manitoulin out of Owen Sound during the week of August 13, 1945. I have been digitizing his extensive 8mm movie archives, and occasionally find treasures like this with historical significance. • The Manitoulin was built in Scotland as the Modjeska in 1889, seeing service as a day steamer in Lake Ontario. The Owen Sound Transportation Company bought her in 1925 for overnight use between Owen Sound and the Canadian Soo. Four years after this home movie was taken, the Manitoulin was retired due to Canadian fire safety regulations... then was scrapped in 1952 at Port Weller and replaced by the Norgoma. (I am grateful to William Worden in the Boatnerds of Facebook group for this historical summary.) • I have added a page to my archive server for this video, and it includes a Google map that shows ports of call or other points of interest along the way... along with a collection of exported still frames. • This film had some seriously distracting jitter, so has stabilized (explaining the edge artifacts during a few of the rapid pans). If you have 8mm, Super 8, or 16mm films that you would like to have digitized, please contact me... I set up the system primarily to digitize my father's film library, but also do it as a service: • http://harbordigitizing.com • More information about the fleet is at this Wikipedia page: • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_So...

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