| Meeting Report October 2nd 2006 |
| At our October meeting we saw Roy Kittle�s collection of slides, Ship�s on The St Lawrence Seaway Part 2, built up by swapping photo�s with various photographers in Canada over a long period of time. We were treated to a tremendous variety of shipping with Tankers, Bulkers and Container ships and of course Lakers such as MENIHEK LAKE, CAROL LAKE, SARNIADOC, and MANTADOC which were all built in Canada by Collinwood Shipbuilders, Ontario in the fifty�s and sixty�s. We started with slides taken in 1959 going right up to the late 1980�s, the oldest ship seen was the Dutch flagged UTRECHT built in 1947 by Sun Shipbuilders in USA and photographed in 1961. We were again impressed that some of these really old slides had retained their quality and colour. Weather conditions were mostly sunny, but several pictures showed thick ice and snow and looked extremely cold, brave photographers indeed. Time again beat us so we were unable to get to the end of the show so perhaps we can look forward to a part 3 in the not to distant future. Thanks to Roy we thank Roy for his research and assembling them into an entertaining show. Thanks to David Berg for this months report |