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The wooden-hulled, passenger steamship Armour provided service on Ontario's Magnetawan River, from 1906 until she burnt to her waterline in the early 1930s.[1] Sources differ over when the ship was launched. An official historic plaque says she was launched in 1906.[2] Another source says Armour was the first passenger vessel on the Magnetawan, and was launched in the 1880s.
The Magnetawan River flows through Armour Township, named after a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada who died in 1903, a few years before the ship was launched.
displacement | 191 tons |
length | 90 feet (27 m) |
beam | 15 feet (4.6 m) |
References
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"History of the Magnetawan River". Municipality of Magnetawan. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
She weighed 191 tons, was 90' long, 15' wide. She made daily trips to Ahmic Harbour after the arrival of the morning train, dispersing passengers, freight and mail at her many stops and taking on wood for fuel along the way. Captain Tom Kennedy was probably her last captain; she burned at the dock in Burk's Falls around the he moved to Loring in 1930 putting an end to the steamboat era on the Magnetawan River.
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