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St. Clair

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Page 4 for 82 29.05 Diesel - D Beer - B Marine Below for
Vicinity 42 49.12 Pumpout - P Wine - W Supplies - M More Details
42 36.60
St. Clair River St. Clair Boat 42 36.92 G, D, P B, M Page 22
42 21.40
St. Clair Harbor 42 21.35

North Channel Algonac Boat 82 32.94 G, D, P F Page 6

Algonac Harbour

North Channel Sunset Harbor 82 33.84 G, P F M Page 39

Algonac & Marina

Detroit River Len’s @Keans 82 58.25 G, D, P F, B, W B, M Page 22
82 58.59 G, D, P F, B, W M Page 27
Detroit River Gregory Boat

carried roughly 2,500 pas-
sengers. However, be-
cause of Cedar Point’s
Amusement Park grow-
ing popularity in Ohio, the
summer of 1991 were the
last trips for the Columbia
and Ste. Claire.
In 2006, the Co-
lumbia was awarded to a
New York non-profit group.
Once restored, the group
plans to put her to work in
New York as an education
Island on your chart as Bois Blanc resource, a cultural venue
While taking a site seeing tour Island… it was thought that the non- and museum, and to pro-
down the Detroit River, we turned into French could not pronounce Bois vide regular excursions
the large canal next to the U.S. Steel Blanc properly and “boblo” became visiting the Hudson River
Plant in Ecorse, where a large freight- the accepted name in 1949. and New York’s harbor.
er was being loaded. At the end of The two boats, the SS Co- The SS Ste. Claire
the canal were two boats, which we lumbia (1902) and her sister ship the was purchased locally by
immediately recognized as the Boblo SS Ste. Claire (1910) are the only two the Maximus Corporation
Boats. remaining turn-of-the-century excur- and they are working to re-
I found some interesting cur- sion steamships in existence. The store the steamer and bring
rent information about these steam- Colum-
ers, which rekindled some fun memo- bia was
ries of what seemed like a really long listed
boat ride (about 90 minutes) to arrive on the
at the Boblo Island Amusement Park Nation-
from the Detroit docks…for you pre- al Reg-
baby boomers, this is the Canadian ister of
Historic
Places
in 1979.
The ap-
proxi-
mately
200’ SS Columbia and

long SS Ste. Claire are located just
steam-
ers off the Detroit River at the US
each Steel Docks in Ecorse, MI

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