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Pleasure boat, Toronto Islands, Canada
Photo of a sightseeing boat at a dock loading passengers and people watching from a low bridge on the left. 

Pleasure boat, Toronto Islands, Canada

Dateapproximately 1940
FormatPicture
Notes
Sightseeing boat "Miss Simcoe" letting passengers off and on next to main bridge at Manitou Road
Subject
    GeographyBuilding Monument ParkCentre Island
    GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
    GeographyNeighbourhoodToronto Islands
    GeographyProvince stateOntario
    GeographyCountryCanada
    Medium
    Postcards
    DimensionsImage size: 9 cm x 14 cm (3 9/16 in. x 5 1/2 in.)
    Language
      ProvenanceGift of Norman Attikin
      CollectionBaldwin Collection of Canadiana
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object NumberPC_3653
      The most popular place in Toronto yesterday seemed to be the Islands, where hundreds of persons lined up on Centre Island for the return boat at 5 p.m(...)
      The most popular place in Toronto yesterday seemed to be the Islands, where hundreds of persons lined up on Centre Island for the return boat at 5 p.m(...)
      Beaty, Keith
      5/21/1972
      Image shows a cruise boat on the lake with a lot of trees on the shore in the background.
      Hour-Long Cruises of Toronto's waterfront and the Islands' canals leave every 30 minutes between July and September from the foot of Yonge St. and the Ontario Place depot. At Present the boats leave every hour.
      Feeny, Edwin
      5/12/1972
      Colorized photograph of a boat moored at a wooden dock beside a fence lined island.
      Yacht and house boat, Alexandria Bay, Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River
      Valentine & Sons
      1912
      Ghost of a boat: The burned-out hulk of the pleasure craft Marona, which exploded in Toronto harbor last night, injuring five people
      Ghost of a boat: The burned-out hulk of the pleasure craft Marona, which exploded in Toronto harbor last night, injuring five people
      Brazao, Dale
      8/30/1980
      Ontario holiday: The Kawarthas, Pleasure boats cruise toward Sturgeon Lake after leaving lock 34 of the Trent waterway system at Fenelon Falls in Ontario's picturesque Kawartha Lakes region
      Ontario holiday: The Kawarthas, Pleasure boats cruise toward Sturgeon Lake after leaving lock 34 of the Trent waterway system at Fenelon Falls in Ontario's picturesque Kawartha Lakes region
      Griffin, Doug
      5/30/1967
      Sunnyside, Deans' Sunnyside Pleasure Boats Building
      Sunnyside, Deans' Sunnyside Pleasure Boats Building
      Unknown
      1920
      Pleasure boat on rail car en route to Severn River
      Pleasure boat on rail car en route to Severn River
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      6/30/1973
      It's business before pleasure, A tiny boat rides perilously close to the stern of the cargo ship Cap Castillo as it passes through the break-water and(...)
      It's business before pleasure, A tiny boat rides perilously close to the stern of the cargo ship Cap Castillo as it passes through the break-water and(...)
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      4/19/1970
      Soviet Hydrofoil tested at port credit, A hydrofoil pleasure boat made in the Soviet Union got its first test in waters of Lake Ontario yesterday with a run in Port Credit Harbor
      Soviet Hydrofoil tested at port credit, A hydrofoil pleasure boat made in the Soviet Union got its first test in waters of Lake Ontario yesterday with a run in Port Credit Harbor
      Calleja, Frank
      6/12/1975
      The only traffic on the Rideau Canal nowadays consists of small pleasure boats
      The only traffic on the Rideau Canal nowadays consists of small pleasure boats
      Boyd, John
      10/1/1930
      On the Rideau (left) pleasure boats come out of Chaffey's Locks on the old canal which links the historics cities of Kingston and Ottawa
      On the Rideau (left) pleasure boats come out of Chaffey's Locks on the old canal which links the historics cities of Kingston and Ottawa
      Darrell, Dick
      4/30/1964
      Pleasure boats and canoes: illustrated catalogue [for 1899]
      Pleasure boats and canoes: illustrated catalogue [for 1899]
      J.H. Rushton
      approximately 1899