Forest City - 113897 (C) at Silver Islet, Ont.

• Main Author: Unknown
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Ships - Great Lakes (North America); Great Lakes (North America) - Navigation - History; Canada; Fond du Lac; Fond-du-Lac; Fort William; Indian; Long Island; Long Island Sound; St. Louis; Steamboat; Toledo; Upper Head; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/170045

This photo was taken at Silver Islet, Ontario between 1912-1918. When first built at Wilmington, Delaware in 1891 as the "Montauk" (92294), she was owned and operated by the Montauk Steamboat Co. of Long Island Sound, New York. She was bought in 1902 by F. H. Clerque of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. and given British registry at St. Johns, Newfoundland, thus avoiding payment of duty into Canada. She was renamed "King Edward" and for some time operated on the upper lakes by the Algoma Central Railroad Co. She ran for several seasons between the Sault and Toledo, Ohio with the "Ossifrage." "King Edward" was sold in 1910 to the Ontario & Ohio Nav. Co. of London, Ont. and renamed "Forest City." Runing from Cleveland, Ohio to Port Stanley, Ont. for two seasons, she made weekend stops at Rondeau, Ont. and side trips to Kingsville, Ont. On June 8, 1912 she was sold to Echart & North and resold to the Silver Islet Nav. Co. on Oct. 12, 1912 at the upper head of Lake Superior. She ran for several seasons between Fort William, Port Arthur, Silver Islet and Isle Royale. After being tied up at Port Arthur during the first World War, she was later taken to Superior, Wis. where she was sold to Duluth interests. In 1923, after being remodeled, she was given her original name of "Montauk." She was a sight-seeing excursion boat, running from Duluth and Superior, taking in the old sights of the Indian country along the picturesque St. Louis River to Fond du Lac, the very head of navigation of the Great Lakes. During the second war, she was out of commission in 1942. She was dropped from U. S. documentation as a steamer in 1947, but cabins had been stripped in 1944.