Скачать или смотреть 1964 SS Cape Breton Miner Christening Port Weller, Ontario

In 1964 the SS Cape Breton Miner, built for Upper Lakes Shipping, was christened in Port Weller (Dry Docks) by a busload of VIPs that included the incumbent Premier of Ontario, the Right Honourable John Robarts.

The ship was one of many that Canada used to build back in the days before "Globalization".

It was originally intended to hall coal from Dominion Coal in Sydney, Nova Scotia, to Ontario Hydro in Toronto, Ontario, which it did for about 5 years. But most of it's life was spent on the high seas till the late 80s when it was finally sold for scrap and wound up on a beach in Taiwan to be cut up in 1987.

http://shipbuildinghistory.com/canada... -- list of ships worked on by Port Weller Dry Docks

This 16mm film is courtesy of David Sharron of the Brock University Special Collections and Archives.