Floating History
For two weeks the SS Keewatin, the last of the Edwardian era steamboats existing in the world, was moored at our State dock. She was tugged here from Douglas, Michigan where she was a museum ship since 1967.The 350 feet long, 280 luxury passenger, Keewatin was built in Scotland in 1905 and was launched in 1907. She was owned by the Canadian Pacific Railroad for the purpose of connecting eastern Canada with western Canada via the Great Lakes. She would sail … Continued