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Glidalong

Canadian List of Shipping 1956: Glidalong [C.177821] registered at Toronto; built at Owen Sound in 1947. 27'2 x 7'5 x 2'9; 4 g.t.; 3 n.t.; 31 hp. Owned by Long Lac Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd., Toronto. Canadian List of Shipping 1970: Steel tug Glidalong [C.195571] registered at Toronto. Built at Owen Sound in 1947. 27'; 4 g.t. Owned by Kimberly - Clark Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. RBF Notes: Hull 732. Docked in Longlac, ON 2004.

Longlac Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. eventually was purchased by Kimberly-Clark Ltd. By 2007, Buchanan owned the Mill in Longlac and therefore owned Pigeon and Glidalong. The mill shop was right beside the Russel Winchboat Pigeon and about two hundred feet from the Glidalong. Longlac boats included a 15' dozer boat named Longlac Junior, winch boats Alec, Glidalong, Grouse, Pigeon and Tauno, apparently only one warping tug Longlac Senior, and full sized tugs Lacalong and Tugalong.

RBF notes: Used by Mill (Longlac, ON July 12, 2005)

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RBF notes: Apparently Buchanen nows owns the Mill in Longlac and therefore owns Pigeon and Glidalong. The mill shop is right beside the Russel Winchboat Pigeon and about two hundred feet from the Glidalong. The woodlands lot where they are is not running due to the two year long strike by the woodlands guys, who say that they have been forgotten in the Purchase. So who knows what will happen to the tugs now. Glidalong looks like it had been getting upgrades to it before the Operation shut down (April 25th, 2007).

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