The Whig-Standard posts a weekly History As We Saw It page of pages. This week's pages highlighted two Kingston marine-related events from December, 1965. The inadvertent severing of the Wolfe Island phone cable during the mooring at Kingston Shipyards of Canada Steamship Lines' Midland Prince, a 1906-built laker that would be scrapped a mere four years later.
It's this type of photo-news correlation that I'd like to undertake, once renewed access to the Archives is available. The problematic Protostatis was also in the news on this December day:
Ferry news! November, 1946 the Wolfe Islander leaves Collingwood. A former landing craft modified to beome a ferry.
A Shipyards strike in November 1956:
A November, 1957 pilots' strike stranded six vessels off Kingston:
In 1913, the Gales of November came calling:
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